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Willey Lumber Camp, Colorado

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Walden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80480. The Survey maps it on the Clark Peak quadrangle.

Willey Lumber Camp within Jackson County

On record in Willey Lumber Camp

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

4 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Willey Lumber Camp between 1992 and 2002, burning under an acre in total. 3 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
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
4 September 1993Naturalunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grasslandnot named
21 August 1992Naturalunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grasslandnot named
15 August 1994Naturalunder an acreJackson Countynot named
19 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkASPEN LDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Willey Lumber Camp: 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Copper. 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
Unnamed ProspectCopperOccurrence1922
Iron MountainPumiceUnknown
UnknownPumiceUnknown

Every working recorded in Jackson 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
Bockman Lumber Camp5.2 miles22
Gould7.0 miles18
Stelbars Lindland10.1 miles18
Old Homestead13.7 miles18
Rand15.3 miles18
Larand22.4 miles17
Walden25.8 miles16
Hebron27.7 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.

Wikidata item Q122548731The 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 177242. 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.