Wheeler Junction, Colorado

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.

• 1929 USGS Dillon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1934 USGS Dillon quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1959 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
• 1970 USGS Vail Pass quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
• 1980 USGS Vail quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Wheeler Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 96 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 1 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.

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:

• Copper Mountain
• Breckenridge
• Gold Hill
• Frisco
• Lincoln
• Masontown

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Wheeler Junction: 8 past producers, 6 occurrences, 6 unknowns, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper. 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 Summit 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 176170. 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.