Wilson Place, Colorado

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Maybell-Powder Wash census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81640. It stands on Vermillion Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lodore School quadrangle.

Wilson Place within Moffat County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1954 USGS Lodore School quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1954 USGS Vernal quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Vernal quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Vernal quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Canyon Of Lodore quadrangle1:100000
1979 USGS Canyon of Lodore quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

83 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Wilson Place between 1992 and 2020, burning about 16,130 acres in total. 76 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	76
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
5 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	24 acres	Northwest District, Craig	LODORE
24 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Craig	GRIMES
23 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Craig	ELK KNOB
23 September 1994	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge	JOYS BURN
19 September 2020	Natural	under an acre	Little Snake Field Office	CONWAY
12 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Craig	HOY
1 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Dinosaur National Monument	GLOW
8 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Craig	WARREN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Moffat County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wilson Place: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. 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
	Airborne Anomaly 56-11	Uranium	Unknown

Every working recorded in Moffat 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
Craig Place	4.3 miles	13
Greystone	15.7 miles	11
Offield Place	19.7 miles	9
Hiawatha	21.3 miles	9
Robinson Place	25.1 miles	15
Jack Springs	30.1 miles	12
Powder Wash	33.4 miles	11
Blue Mountain	35.5 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 169777. 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.