Stonewall, Colorado

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Salida census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81236. It lies near Pomeroy Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Saint Elmo quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Stonewall within Chaffee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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.

1940 USGS Garfield quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1945 USGS Garfield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1968 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Saint Elmo quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS St. Elmo quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Gunnison quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Saint Elmo quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Stonewall (historical) between 1994 and 2015, burning about 18 acres in total. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
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
20 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	ALPINE
31 July 1994	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	not named
20 July 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	MIDDLE QUARTZ
2 July 2006	Recreation and ceremony	1.1 acres	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	MIDDLE QUARTZ
12 July 2005	Natural	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	GRANITE MOUNTAIN
7 June 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	HUNKYDORY
19 June 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	not named
15 June 2002	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	POWERLINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chaffee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 63 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 63 workings within 5 miles of Stonewall (historical): 36 past producers, 20 occurrences, 5 producers, 2 prospects. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Gold, Silver, Copper. 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
Alpine No One	Granite	Past Producer
Alpine Tunnell Old	Lead, Zinc, Silver	Past Producer
Beryl Gem Claims	Beryllium, Tantalum, Niobium (Columbium)	Occurrence	Vein
Bill Short	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Cadmium, Zinc	Producer	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Greenockite, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Black Hawk	Copper, Zinc, Gold, Lead	Past Producer
Brittle Silver	Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold	Occurrence	Vein
California	Molybdenum, Beryllium	Producer	Vein
Carey Mill	Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead	Past Producer
Copper Hill	Molybdenum, Copper	Occurrence	Molybdenite
Copper King	Nickel, Gold	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Chaffee 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
Hancock (historical)	0.6 miles	20
Romley (historical)	3.1 miles	20
Shavano (historical)	4.2 miles	20
Saint Elmo (historical)	5.1 miles	20
Iron City (historical)	5.5 miles	20
Garfield	6.5 miles	20
Alpine (historical)	7.1 miles	20
Maysville	11.0 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 196811. 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.