BlockTrapper, Colorado
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Yampa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80483. It stands on Todd Creek. The Survey maps it on the Trapper quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Trapper quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Steamboat Springs quadrangle1:100000
- 2000 USGS Trapper quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
6 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Trapper between 1996 and 2020, burning about 27 acres in total. 4 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 | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 1996 | Natural | 25 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | CORN |
| 1 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | TODD |
| 11 July 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | LONE SPRING |
| 4 June 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | HALL PASS |
| 29 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.6 acres | Routt County | CHERRY CREEK |
| 28 January 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Yampa Fire Protection District | N/A |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Trapper: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yampa | 3.7 miles | 13 | |
| Toponas | 4.8 miles | 14 | |
| Phippsburg | 9.5 miles | 13 | |
| Oak Creek | 12.5 miles | 12 | |
| Keystone | 14.3 miles | 12 | |
| Haybro | 16.3 miles | 12 | |
| Dunckley | 21.5 miles | 20 | |
| Steamboat Springs | 26.4 miles | 12 |
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 Q122550057 | 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 173082. 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.