Prospect Heights, Colorado

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 6 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Greenwood Cemeterylisted 2013 · 0.6 miles away
• Robison Mansionlisted 1984 · 0.7 miles away
• South Canon High Schoollisted 2005 · 0.8 miles away
• Canon City State Armorylisted 1999 · 0.9 miles away
• Deputy Warden's Houselisted 2001 · 1.0 miles away
• McClure Houselisted 1979 · 1.0 miles away

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.

• 1889 USGS Canon City quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1892 USGS Canon City quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
• 1892 USGS Canyon City quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Canon City quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1962 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
• 1982 USGS Canon City quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 723 fires within 5 miles of Prospect Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 720 acres in total. 50 started naturally. 3 were 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Cañon City
• Orchard Park
• Buckskin Joe
• East Canon
• Lincoln Park
• Brookside

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 53 workings within 5 miles of Prospect Heights: 19 past producers, 19 producers, 10 occurrences, 3 prospects. 20 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Feldspar, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Fremont County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 192009. 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.