Spook City, Colorado

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Saguache census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81155. It lies near Bonita Hill. The Survey maps it on the Klondike Mine quadrangle.

Spook City within Saguache County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1956 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Klondike Mine quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1968 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Saguache quadrangle1:100000
2001 USGS Klondike Mine quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Spook City between 1994 and 2011, burning about 33 acres in total. 5 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
Natural	5
Arson/incendiarism	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
24 July 2001	Natural	under an acre	Rio Grande National Forest	SAWLOG
21 July 1994	Natural	3.0 acres	Rio Grande National Forest	not named
16 June 2011	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Rio Grande National Forest	UTE SPRINGS
31 May 2002	Natural	5.2 acres	Rio Grande National Forest	HORSE CANYON
22 May 2002	Natural	14 acres	Rio Grande National Forest	FINDLEY GULCH
19 May 2006	Natural	under an acre	Rio Grande National Forest	SLAUGHTER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saguache County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Spook City: 25 past producers, 9 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Silver, Gold, Silver, Manganese. 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
Bonanza Mill	Silver, Copper, Gold, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Chloride Mine	Lead, Zinc, Copper	Past Producer	Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Chloride Mine	Lead, Silver, Gold, Zinc, Copper	Past Producer
Commander Mine	Lead, Silver, Gold, Zinc, Copper, Manganese	Past Producer	1939
Eagle Mine	Silver, Lead, Copper, Gold, Manganese, Zinc, Bismuth	Past Producer	1882, 1898, 1922
Express Mine	Silver, Gold, Zinc, Lead, Copper, Manganese	Occurrence	1928
Hawk Tunnel	Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper, Manganese, Zinc, Bismuth	Past Producer	1882
Klondike Mine	Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Bismuth	Past Producer	1930
Little Bonanza	Lead, Zinc	Producer
Little Thelma Mine	Lead, Silver, Copper, Gold	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Galena

Every working recorded in Saguache 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
Bonita	1.0 miles	12
Sedgewick (historical)	4.3 miles	17
Kerper City	4.7 miles	17
Parkville	5.1 miles	12
Bonanza	5.3 miles	17
Saguache	10.3 miles	11
Chester	11.4 miles	12
Alder	12.7 miles	16

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 Q122588583

The 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 190098. 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.