Singleton, 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 stands on Smith Creek. The Survey maps it on the Shawnee quadrangle.

Singleton within Park County

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.

1945 USGS Shawnee quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1948 USGS Shawnee quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1957 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Bailey quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1987 USGS Shawnee quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Shawnee quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

33 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Singleton between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,449 acres in total. 13 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
Natural	13
Recreation and ceremony	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	2
Firearms and explosives use	2
Other causes	1
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
3 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	101
29 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	COMPUTER TERMINAL
2 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	SHAWNEE NORTH 1
2 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	SHAWNEE NORTH 2
2 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	N/A
30 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	BEN TYLER
26 August 2019	Natural	70 acres	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	SHAWNEE PEAK
22 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	SHAWNEE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Park County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Singleton: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Guernsey Kenosha Pass Mine	Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer
Redskin Mines	Molybdenum, Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer	1955
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Redskin Claims	Uranium	Occurrence	Torbernite
Redskin Mines	Uranium	Past Producer	1963

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Weller	1.0 miles	18
Santa Maria	1.7 miles	20
Shawnee	3.0 miles	18
Grant	3.4 miles	20
Glenisle	5.4 miles	18
Highland Park	5.5 miles	18
Webster	6.4 miles	20
Bailey	7.3 miles	29

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 183224. 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.