Whitepine, Colorado

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Gunnison census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81248. It stands on Galena Creek. The Survey maps it on the Whitepine quadrangle.

Whitepine within Gunnison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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.

1940 USGS Garfield quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1945 USGS Garfield quadrangle1:62500, 2 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 Whitepine quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Gunnison quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
2001 USGS Whitepine quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Whitepine between 1994 and 2012, burning about 2 acres in total. 9 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	9
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
22 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
9 August 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	OLD MONARCH
7 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	HORSESHOE
31 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	TRIANO
14 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	TRAM
8 July 2010	Natural	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	CANYON CREEK
8 July 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	POWERLINE
22 July 1997	Natural	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	PORPHYRY PARK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Waunita Hot Springs

Every fire recorded in Gunnison County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 104 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 104 workings within 5 miles of Whitepine: 49 past producers, 33 producers, 20 occurrences, 2 prospects. 33 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Akron	Silver, Lead, Zinc	Producer	Lead, Silver
Annie Hudson	Zinc, Silver	Producer	Replacement
Ben Bolt	Lead, Zinc, Copper	Producer	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Bill Short	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Cadmium, Zinc	Producer	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Greenockite, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Bonus Extension	Beryllium, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, Mica	Occurrence	Beryl, Columbite, Muscovite, Tantalite
Brittle Basin	Fluorine-Fluorite, Quartz	Past Producer
Copper Hill	Molybdenum, Copper	Occurrence	Molybdenite
Copper King	Nickel, Gold	Past Producer
Eureka-Nest Egg	Silver, Copper, Lead, Gold	Producer	Replacement
Graphite Basin	Graphite	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Gunnison 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Waunita Hot Springs	6.4 miles	19
Pitkin	8.0 miles	19
Campbelltown (historical)	10.3 miles	19
Ohio	11.7 miles	19
Doyleville	13.0 miles	12
Tincup	15.4 miles	16
Abbeyville	17.1 miles	16
Parlin	17.9 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 189388. 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.