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The Bucktail Fire was a wildfire in August 2024 that has burned through 7,202 acres (2,915 ha) of land in Montrose County in the U.S. state of Colorado. It began on August 1. It began on August 1. It is currently the second-largest wildfire to ignite during the 2024 Colorado wildfire season .
The Spruce Creek Fire, ... The 2024 Colorado wildfire season was a series of wildfires that burned in the U.S. state of ... Montrose: 7,078: August 1: August 21 [11 ...
The Cameron Peak Fire became the largest wildfire in Colorado history seven weeks later, and ended up burning a total of 208,913 acres. The 2012 Colorado forest fires broke the record for most destructive fire twice and led to declaration of a federal disaster area in June 2012. [ 5 ]
Montrose is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Montrose County, Colorado, United States. [10] The city population was 20,291 at the 2020 census , [ 8 ] within a total area of 18.5 square miles. [ 6 ]
Uravan (a contraction of uranium/vanadium [2]) is a former uranium mining town [3] in western Montrose County, Colorado, United States, which still appears on some maps.The town was a company town established by U. S. Vanadium Corporation in 1936 to extract the rich vanadium ore in the region.
The 2020 Colorado wildfire season was a series of significant wildfires that burned throughout the U.S. state of Colorado as part of the 2020 Western United States wildfire season. With a total of 665,454 acres (269,300 ha) burned, and the 3 largest fires in state history, it is Colorado's largest wildfire season on record.
The 2020 East Troublesome Fire was a massive and destructive wildfire, and the second-largest in the history of the U.S. state of Colorado.Named for the East Fork of Troublesome Creek, close to the fire's point of origin in the Arapaho National Forest, the fire burned 193,812 acres (78,433 ha) between its ignition on October 14, 2020, and its containment on November 30.
Montrose County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census , the population was 42,679. [ 2 ] The county seat is Montrose , [ 3 ] for which the county is named.