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Shawnee, Colorado

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Fairplay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80475. It lies near Slaughterhouse Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Shawnee quadrangle. It stands 8,120 feet above sea level.

Shawnee within Park County

On record in Shawnee

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Shawnee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,620 acres in total. 23 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Natural23
Recreation and ceremony9
Firearms and explosives use3
Smoking3
Other causes1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePike and San Isabel National Forest64
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePlatte Canyon Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
29 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestCOMPUTER TERMINAL
20 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePlatte Canyon Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
2 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestSHAWNEE NORTH 1
2 September 2019Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestSHAWNEE NORTH 2
2 September 2019Naturalunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
2 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestPAYNE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Park County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Shawnee: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Molybdenum, Uranium, Vanadium. 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
Redskin MinesMolybdenum, Uranium, VanadiumPast Producer1955
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Redskin ClaimsUraniumOccurrenceTorbernite
Redskin MinesUraniumPast Producer1963

Every working recorded in Park 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
Glenisle2.5 miles18
Singleton3.0 miles18
Weller4.0 miles18
Bailey4.4 miles29
Santa Maria4.6 miles20
Highland Park5.5 miles18
Insmont5.7 miles29
Grant6.3 miles20

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 ShawneeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3116369The 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 183232. 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.