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Steamboat II, Colorado

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Steamboat Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80487. It stands on Slate Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mad Creek quadrangle.

Steamboat II within Routt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Steamboat II between 1992 and 2020, burning about 58 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined12
Natural5
Smoking3
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
4 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSteamboat Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
3 September 2016Naturalunder an acreSteamboat Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
28 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresRoutt County44
8 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSteamboat Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
3 August 2017Naturalunder an acreDenver CountyUNKNOWN
3 August 1993Smokingunder an acreRoutt Countynot named
14 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSteamboat Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
6 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSteamboat Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Routt County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Steamboat II: 8 past producers, 7 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal, Copper, Gold. 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
Sunset ClaimsCopper, GoldOccurrenceCopper, Gold
UnknownClayOccurrence
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrenceSedimentary
Unknown QuarryStonePast Producer
Copper RidgeCopper, GoldOccurrence
Routt Hot SpringsGeothermalUnknown
Slate CreekCopper, GoldOccurrence
Steamboat SpringsGeothermalUnknown
Bear River Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hogue Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Routt County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Steamboat II in 2 storm reports in 2008: 2 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2008FloodSteamboat Ii-The Elk River near Milner exceeded flood stage and inundated low lying areas adjacent to the river, mainly consisting of pasture and farm land. Flooding continued into the following month. Please see the June 2008 Storm Data publication for a continuation on this event.
June 2008FloodSteamboat Ii-This event began the last day of May and continued into June. The Elk River near Milner exceeded flood stage inundating low lying areas adjacent to the river, mainly pasture and farm land.

Every storm recorded in Routt 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
Mad Creek4.1 miles18
Steamboat Springs4.3 miles12
Milner6.2 miles19
Mystic6.4 miles18
McGregor7.1 miles19
Bear River (historical)11.3 miles19
Haybro12.5 miles12
Mount Harris12.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 196767. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.