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Uravan, Colorado

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Nucla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81422. It lies near Hieroglyphic Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Uravan quadrangle.

Uravan within Montrose County

On record in Uravan

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 26 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

69 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Uravan between 1993 and 2020, burning about 69 acres in total. 61 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
Natural61
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1

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
7 September 1994Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseTHREE
6 September 1994Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseHONEYMOON
4 September 2002Natural1.0 acresSouthwest District, MontroseATKINSON M
3 September 2004Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseBLUE SPR P
19 September 1995Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseATKIN
13 September 2009Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseATKINSON
8 August 1993Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseSAUCER
6 August 2002Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseURAVAN AIR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montrose County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 426 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 426 workings within 5 miles of Uravan: 287 past producers, 55 occurrences, 41 unknowns, 40 producers. 40 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Vanadium, Uranium, Vanadium, Vanadium, Uranium. 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
Chipeta Placer DistrictGold, SilverPast Producer1884
Club GroupClayOccurrence
Scott Brothers PotashPotassiumPast Producer
Star #3 MineTantalum, UraniumPast Producer
U.S. Vanadium Corp. Salt WorksSaltPast Producer
Worcester MineUranium, Gold, VanadiumPast Producer
Camp Marvel Carnotite MineRadium, Uranium, VanadiumPast Producer
MarvelRadium, Uranium, VanadiumPast Producer
Aurora Placer No. 2GoldOccurrence
HardscrabbleGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Montrose County

Storms near this place

9 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Uravan in 9 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 4 debris flow, 2 flood, 1 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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
September 2006LightningUravan1 killedno account filed
July 2021Debris FlowUravan$5,000A debris flow occurred along Colorado Highway 141 between mile markers 69 through 79 as a result of heavy rains. The road was closed for several hours due to cleanup operations.
April 2023FloodUravan$1,000Rapid snowmelt led the Dolores River to overrun its banks. This led to flooding across Y11 Road in Montrose County, near Uravan.
August 2021Debris FlowUravan$1,000The Colorado Department of Transportation reported Colorado Highway 141 had alternating traffic due to mudslide clean-up between County Road Y11 and County Road Q12.
August 2024Debris FlowUravan-Heavy rains resulted in erosion of the Highway 141 bridge at mile marker 85.6 over Mesa Creek, roughly 8 miles northwest of Uravan. CDOT closed Highway 141 in both directions on August 12 at 1010 MST, nearly 24 to 36 hours after the inciting debris flow and scouring due to the compromised bridge.
July 2013Debris FlowUravan-Heavy rainfall resulted in a mudslide over Highway 141 near Uravan.
September 2006Flash FloodUravan-no account filed
September 2002HailUravan-no account filed
August 2001FloodUravan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montrose 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
Bedrock9.0 miles27
Paradox12.0 miles27
Vancorum12.0 miles19
West Vancorum12.1 miles19
Nucla12.1 miles21
East Vancorum12.3 miles19
Naturita13.6 miles19
Mountain View14.1 miles15

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.

Wikipedia article on UravanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7899800The 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 203153. 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.