User:Footwarrior

This editor is a Veteran Editor II and is entitled to display this Bronze Editor Star. en This user is a native speaker of the English language. This user has been on Wikipedia for 17 years, 1 month and 7 days. This user has autopatrolled rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user contributes to Wikimedia Commons. This user is a member of WikiProject Birds. This user is a member of WikiProject Protected Areas. This user is a participant in WikiProject Rivers. This user is a member of the U.S. Roads WikiProject. This user welcomes new users with Twinkle! This user participates in WikiProject Colorado. This user has visited 49 of the 50 United States. 49 This user has visited 6 of the 10 provinces and 3 territories of Canada. 6 This box intentionally left blank

This is Footwarrior's user page. Someday it may have something interesting.

Use Dab Solver to clean up links.

To find places in the US, query the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) database. Mountains are summits, rivers are streams, passes are gaps. Choosing the state and county will speed up the search. GNIS reports sometimes have information on how the place got it's name. Once you find the spot, use the GNIS in Google maps link to see if it makes sense. GNIS coordinates are sometimes wrong and elevation data is better than nothing, but can be way off for a mountain summit.

A benchmark or triangulation point on top of a mountain is the best source for elevation, try searching for NGS datasheets. Start with the USGS quad name from GNIS. If the quad name is similar to "McCurdy Mountain", try searching for "Mc Curdy Mountain". Benchmarks names are often the same as the mountain, but not always. Second best place to find elevation data for mountains is on Peakbagger.

When you enter coordinates into a Wikipedia template, use degrees, minutes, seconds to the nearest second at most, don't be over precise.

To find the coordinates of a place you can find on a map, use Google Maps with crosshair.

Handy tool for converting Lat Long to or from UTM. [1]

If you are creating an article for a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places, use this tool.[2] to get started. The tool will create an article outline with and infobox that can be pasted into your sandbox for more work.

Dead tree editions I have used as references:

• Colorado Atlas & Gazetteer (Third ed.). Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. 1997. ISBN 0-89933-206-4.
• Halka Chronic (1980). Roadside Geology of Colorado. Missoula Montana: Mountain Press Publishing Co. ISBN 0-87842-105-X.

• "Map and Description of the Active Part of the Slumgullion Landslide, Hinsdale County, Colorado" (PDF). USGS. 1999.
• Slumgullion photo collection.[3]
• "Highway Bridges in Colorado (NRHP submission)" (PDF).
• "National and State Registers". Colorado Historical Society, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation.
• "NRHP submission for Denver Mountain Parks" (PDF).

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