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Rockvale, Colorado

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Florence census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81226. It stands on South Oak Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rockvale quadrangle. 511 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,463 feet above sea level.

Rockvale within Fremont County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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.

Fires near this place

341 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 341 fires within 5 miles of Rockvale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 96 acres in total. 17 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined288
Natural17
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking7
Debris and open burning7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Fireworks1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCanon City Area Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
4 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
30 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
30 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestSTULTZ
26 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
2 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
2 September 2013Naturalunder an acreWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 55 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 55 workings within 5 miles of Rockvale: 25 past producers, 24 producers, 4 occurrences, 1 plant. 25 still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bentley PegmatiteFeldspar, Mica, QuartzPast ProducerFeldspar, Mica, Quartz
Canon City DepositIronOccurrenceLimonite, Siderite
Horse Shoe & El PlomaLead, Copper, Gold, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Last HopeFeldspar, Mica, Stone, Crushed/Broken, QuartzProducerMica, Microcline, Quartz
Oak CreekFeldspar, MicaProducer
Oak Creek Grade PrsopectFeldspar, MicaOccurrence
White King, State RockSilicaProducer
Florence Perlite MillPerliteProducer
PersolitePerliteProducer
Unidentified Placer OccurrenceGoldOccurrencePlacer

Every working recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rockvale in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2021: 1 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2021Flash FloodRockvale-High water and wash outs on Chandler road and County road 78.
August 2007HailRockvale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fremont 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Coal Creek1.0 miles23
Williamsburg1.1 miles24
Chandler (historical)2.0 miles23
Florence2.8 miles24
Brookside3.5 miles24
Lincoln Park5.1 miles24
Prospect Heights5.5 miles24
East Canon6.3 miles24

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on RockvaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1816835The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 203568. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.