Princeton, Colorado

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Buena Vista census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81211. It lies near Langhoff Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Harvard Lakes quadrangle.

Princeton within Chaffee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 20 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1955 USGS Buena Vista quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1956 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1968 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Harvard Lakes quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Gunnison quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Harvard Lakes quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

22 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Princeton between 1993 and 2018, burning about 8 acres in total. 8 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Natural	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
22 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	CLEAR CRK
5 August 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	not named
29 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	HAYDEN GULCH
22 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	NUMBERS
14 August 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	DIRTY OLD MAN
7 July 2011	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	BUFFALO PEAKS
4 July 2007	Natural	3.0 acres	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	FRENCHMAN CREEK
31 July 1993	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chaffee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 52 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 52 workings within 5 miles of Princeton: 36 past producers, 15 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Hope District	Gold, Silver, Lead	Past Producer	LODE (VEIN), PLACER?
Josephine Mine	Gold, Cobalt	Producer	Gold
Josephine Mine	Cobalt, Gold, Silver	Occurrence
Little Troy	Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer
Mt. Harvard	Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead	Occurrence	Vein
Tamarack	Copper, Silver, Gold	Occurrence	Vein
Tamarack	Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Wapaca	Copper	Occurrence	Vein
Majenta	Gold, Zinc, Copper, Lead	Past Producer
New Year	Gold, Zinc, Copper, Lead	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Chaffee County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Granite	4.2 miles	29
Riverside	4.3 miles	20
Americus	6.9 miles	20
Vicksburg	8.4 miles	17
Rockdale	10.2 miles	17
Buena Vista	11.4 miles	22
Winfield	11.7 miles	17
Johnson Village	14.0 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 189251. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.