Rockdale, Colorado

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 Mount Harvard quadrangle1:62500, 4 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 Winfield quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1984 USGS Gunnison quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Winfield quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Rockdale between 1993 and 2019, burning about 16 acres in total. 2 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.

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:

• Vicksburg
• Winfield
• Granite

Every fire recorded in Chaffee County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Rockdale: 16 occurrences, 7 past producers, 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Molybdenum, Gold, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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 Chaffee 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 189173. 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.