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Snow Water Springs, Colorado

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1994. It lies in ZIP code area 80135. It stands on Brush Creek. The Survey maps it on the Deckers quadrangle.

Snow Water Springs within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 32 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

264 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 264 fires within 5 miles of Snow Water Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,573 acres in total. 195 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
Natural195
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Recreation and ceremony12
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking3
Firearms and explosives use2
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
8 September 2013Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestGUNBARREL
8 September 2013Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestWEST NODDLES
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestSHIRT
3 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestSHOOTER 2
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersSEDALIA
26 September 2012Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestTRUMBULL
24 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 Snow Water Springs: 5 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Feldspar, REE, Gold, 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
Andre-Horse Creek PlacerGoldOccurrencePlacer
Three MusketeersFeldspar, Fluorine-Fluorite, Potassium, QuartzPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
Miller LodeFeldspar, REEPast ProducerMicrocline
Three Musketeers Feldspar LodeFeldspar, REEPast Producer1938, 1943
Big Bertha PegmatiteFeldsparPast Producer
Fenders-Magnotta PegmatiteFeldsparProducer
Miller Lode #1FeldsparPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Trumbull0.2 miles32
Oxyoke2.8 miles32
Buffalo Creek8.9 miles33
Riverview9.6 miles33
Ferndale10.0 miles33
South Platte10.1 miles27
Longview10.6 miles27
Dome Rock10.9 miles27

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 Q122549236The 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 183543. 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.