Summitville, Colorado

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Del Norte census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81154. It stands on Cropsy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Summitville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Summitville within Rio Grande County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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.

1913 USGS Summitville quadrangle1:125000
1915 USGS Summitville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1945 USGS Durango quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Durango quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Durango quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Durango quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Durango quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Durango quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Platoro quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1967 USGS Summitville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1985 USGS Antonito quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
2001 USGS Summitville quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Summitville (historical) between 1994 and 2010, burning about 6 acres in total. 8 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
Natural	8
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
14 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Rio Grande National Forest	OUTLAW
5 August 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Rio Grande National Forest	IRON
24 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	Rio Grande National Forest	BITTER
23 July 2003	Natural	under an acre	Rio Grande National Forest	CROPSY
22 July 2004	Natural	under an acre	Rio Grande National Forest	MUDD
16 July 2003	Natural	under an acre	Rio Grande National Forest	SUMMIT
26 June 1994	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Conejos County Office	not named
25 June 2008	Natural	under an acre	Rio Grande National Forest	SCRAG

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Jasper

Every fire recorded in Rio Grande County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 56 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 56 workings within 5 miles of Summitville (historical): 39 past producers, 10 occurrences, 4 unknowns, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Gold, Silver, Silver. 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
A-C Property	Aluminum, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid, Potassium	Occurrence	1972
Alum Creek	Molybdenum, Iron, Copper, Zinc, Lead	Occurrence	Molybdenite
Alum Creek Property	Copper, Molybdenum	Occurrence	Galena, Molybdenite, Sphalerite
Apex Tunnel	Antimony	Occurrence	Vein
Cliff	Gold, Copper, Iron, Silver	Past Producer
Decatur West District	Gold, Silver, Aluminum, Copper, Lead, Molybdenum, Tin, Antimony, Zinc	Past Producer	1870, 1938
Eurydice Shaft	Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Copper	Past Producer
Ida Tunnel	Gold, Silver, Copper	Past Producer
Little Annie	Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead	Past Producer
Reynolds Tunnel	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Jasper	6.9 miles	22
South Fork	16.7 miles	22
Gerrard	17.0 miles	21
Baxterville	17.2 miles	22
Alpine	17.8 miles	21
Hanna	18.6 miles	19
Del Norte	21.3 miles	19
Evansville	22.0 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 190615. 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.