BlockSlate Creek, Colorado
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Silverthorne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80498. It stands on Slate Creek. The Survey maps it on the Eagle Roost quadrangle.
On record in Slate Creek
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
Slate Creek Bridgelisted 1985
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1933 USGS Ute Peak quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1937 USGS Ute Peak quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Squaw Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Vail quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
23 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Slate Creek between 1996 and 2020, burning about 241 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 | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Lake Dillon Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 6 August 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | UTE PEAK |
| 4 August 2004 | Natural | under an acre | White River National Forest | FLATTOP MOUNTAIN |
| 31 August 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | White River National Forest | ACORN CREEK |
| 28 August 1996 | Natural | under an acre | White River National Forest | BLUE RIVER |
| 23 August 2013 | Natural | under an acre | White River National Forest | BOULDER CREEK |
| 2 August 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | White River National Forest | ROCK CREEK |
| 17 August 2001 | Natural | under an acre | White River National Forest | SLATE CREEK |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heeney | 9.5 miles | 19 | |
| Silverthorne | 11.5 miles | 16 | |
| Dillon | 12.4 miles | 16 | |
| Frisco | 14.9 miles | 17 | |
| Doenz Place | 15.1 miles | 19 | |
| Masontown | 15.4 miles | 17 | |
| Keystone | 15.8 miles | 33 | |
| Gold Hill | 17.6 miles | 17 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1947608. 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.