Rexford, Colorado

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Breckenridge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80424. It lies near Garibaldi Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Keystone quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Rexford within Summit County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 33 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.

1924 USGS Montezuma quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1926 USGS Montezuma quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1933 USGS Montezuma quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1957 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Keystone quadrangle1:24000, 8 printings
1958 USGS Montezuma quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1960 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Montezuma quadrangle1:62500
1983 USGS Denver West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Rexford (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Recreation and ceremony	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Natural	5
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	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
8 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	White River National Forest	BERGMAN
7 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	WEBSTER
28 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Summit County	WEBSTER
26 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lake Dillon Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
25 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	White River National Forest	RADICAL
25 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	White River National Forest	WOLVERINE
24 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lake Dillon Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
23 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	White River National Forest	WEBSTER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 123 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 123 workings within 5 miles of Rexford (historical): 78 past producers, 27 producers, 16 occurrences, 1 prospect. 27 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc, 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
Allan Emory Mine	Silver, Zinc, Lead, Gold, Copper	Past Producer	1875
Aorta No 1	Lead, Zinc, Copper, Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Arrastre Queen Mine	Silver, Gold	Past Producer	1800, 1881
Atlantic	Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper, Zinc, Bismuth	Producer
Bell	Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Gold	Producer	Argentite, Galena, Gold, Proustite, Sphalerite
Bullion	Zinc, Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver	Past Producer	Pyrite, Galena
Cashier	Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc	Occurrence	Pyrite, Sphalerite
Cashier Mine	Copper, Lead, Zinc, Gold, Silver	Producer	Vein
Copenhagen, Ida Belle	Lead, Silver, Gold, Zinc, Copper	Producer	Galena, Sphalerite
Don Pedro, Hunkidori	Lead, Silver, Gold	Producer	Galena, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite

Every working recorded in Summit 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
Saints John (historical)	2.7 miles	33
Montezuma	3.6 miles	31
Tiger (historical)	3.6 miles	33
Parkville (historical)	3.8 miles	23
Lincoln	5.7 miles	23
Keystone	6.6 miles	33
Preston (historical)	7.1 miles	31
Gold Hill	8.1 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 203910. 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.