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Sugar Junction, Colorado

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Monte Vista census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81144. The Survey maps it on the Homelake quadrangle.

Sugar Junction within Rio Grande County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

19 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Sugar Junction between 2003 and 2016, burning about 73 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined18
Natural1

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
25 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersALAMOSA
23 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCSFS-Alamosa Districtnot named
14 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCSFS-Alamosa Districtnot named
6 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCSFS-Alamosa Districtnot named
4 April 2007Natural51 acresMonte Vista National Wildlife RefugeUNIT 7
3 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresCSFS-Alamosa Districtnot named
27 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCSFS-Alamosa Districtnot named
24 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCSFS-Alamosa Districtnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rio Grande County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Sugar Junction: 6 unknowns, 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Mathias North Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unk PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Rio Grande 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
Homelake1.0 miles16
Zinzer1.1 miles16
Monte Vista2.0 miles18
Maxeyville4.0 miles18
Vastine4.6 miles17
Torres5.6 miles18
Dunul6.5 miles17
Sevenmile Plaza8.6 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 190409. 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.