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Sevenmile Plaza, Colorado

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Del Norte census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81144. It lies near PeƱascito. The Survey maps it on the Sevenmile Plaza quadrangle.

Sevenmile Plaza within Rio Grande County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Sevenmile Plaza between 1992 and 2012, burning about 33 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
14 August 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreRio Grande Countynot named
8 July 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreRio Grande Countynot named
15 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCSFS-Alamosa Districtnot named
13 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Luis Valley Field OfficeJEEP
12 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCSFS-Alamosa Districtnot named
11 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersDEL NORTE
28 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersDEL NORTE
24 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCSFS-Alamosa Districtnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rio Grande County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Sevenmile Plaza: 6 unknowns, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Pumice. 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
UnknownPumiceOccurrence
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Rio Grande 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
Torres3.4 miles18
Evansville4.6 miles19
Maxeyville5.1 miles18
Del Norte6.5 miles19
Monte Vista6.7 miles18
Vastine7.2 miles17
Dunul7.2 miles17
Ansel8.1 miles17

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.

Wikidata item Q122595855The 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 190318. 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.