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Zinzer, Colorado

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Monte Vista census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81144. The Survey maps it on the Homelake quadrangle.

Zinzer within Rio Grande County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

25 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Zinzer between 1995 and 2020, burning about 81 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
25 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersALAMOSA
8 June 1995Naturalunder an acreMonte Vista National Wildlife RefugeUNIT 4
29 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCSFS-Alamosa Districtnot named
23 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCSFS-Alamosa Districtnot named
18 May 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDenver Countynot named
14 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCSFS-Alamosa Districtnot named
9 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresCSFS-Alamosa Districtnot named
6 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCSFS-Alamosa Districtnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rio Grande County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Zinzer: 5 unknowns, 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Mathias North Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unk PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Rio Grande 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
Homelake1.1 miles16
Sugar Junction1.1 miles16
Monte Vista3.1 miles18
Maxeyville4.9 miles18
Vastine5.1 miles17
Torres6.7 miles18
Dunul7.0 miles17
Sevenmile Plaza9.7 miles17

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 Q122546827The 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 190410. 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.