Wellshire, Colorado

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 4 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Evans Memorial Chapellisted 1974 · 0.5 miles away
• Iliff Halllisted 2006 · 0.5 miles away
• Buchtel Bungalowlisted 1988 · 0.8 miles away
• Chamberlin Observatorylisted 1980 · 0.9 miles away

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.

• 1890 USGS East Denver quadrangle1:125000
• 1935 USGS East Denver Nos. 3 and 4 quadrangle1:48000
• 1940 USGS Englewood quadrangle1:31680
• 1944 USGS Englewood quadrangle1:31680
• 1950 USGS Englewood quadrangle1:24000
• 1953 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1957 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Englewood quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Englewood quadrangle1:24000, 9 printings
• 1981 USGS Denver East quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1997 USGS Englewood quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 895 fires within 5 miles of Wellshire between 2010 and 2020, burning about 138 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 26 were 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• University Hills
• University Park
• Bear Valley
• College View
• Bear Valley Heights
• Ruby Hill

Every fire recorded in Denver County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Wellshire: 8 occurrences, 8 unknowns, 8 producers, 5 past producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Sulfur, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Denver County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2117944. 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.