Vicksburg, Colorado
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Buena Vista census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81211. It lies near Missouri Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Winfield quadrangle.
On record in Vicksburg
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Vicksburg Mining Camplisted 1977 · 0.1 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 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.
- 1955 USGS Mount Harvard quadrangle1:62500, 4 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 Winfield quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Gunnison quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Winfield quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
20 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Vicksburg between 1993 and 2019, burning about 16 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | WINFIELD PEAK |
| 11 September 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | LOST CANYON |
| 7 August 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | not named |
| 5 August 1999 | Smoking | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | CLEAR CREEK |
| 24 August 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | 390 |
| 23 August 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | LOIS LAKE |
| 22 August 1997 | Smoking | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | BELLFORD |
| 15 August 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | PARRY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 25 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Vicksburg: 16 occurrences, 6 past producers, 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Molybdenum, Gold, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Banker Mine | Molybdenum, Bismuth | Occurrence | Bismuthinite, Molybdenite | |
| Banker Mine | Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Fortune | Silver, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Last Dollar | Silver, Bismuth, Copper | Prospect | ||
| Little Guy | Molybdenum, Nickel | Past Producer | ||
| Mike Rabbit | Copper, Bismuth | Prospect | ||
| Swiss Boy Dump | Lead, Silver, Uranium, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Swiss Boy Mine | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Swiss Boy, Silver Crop | Lead, Zinc | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Clear Creek | Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | Vein |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rockdale | 1.9 miles | 17 | |
| Winfield | 3.5 miles | 17 | |
| Granite | 6.8 miles | 29 | |
| Princeton | 8.4 miles | 20 | |
| Riverside | 11.1 miles | 20 | |
| Americus | 13.1 miles | 20 | |
| Buena Vista | 17.0 miles | 22 | |
| Johnson Village | 19.4 miles | 20 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 189174. 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.







