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Chipita Park, Colorado

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Pikes Peak census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80809. It lies near Sand Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Woodland Park quadrangle.

Chipita Park within El Paso County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 25 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

188 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Chipita Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19,040 acres in total. 47 started naturally. 6 were 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/undetermined77
Natural47
Recreation and ceremony42
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestEAGLE LAKE
6 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National Forestnot named
3 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestCAMP #1
3 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestMISTLETOE
28 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National Forest950
28 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresPike and San Isabel National ForestWALDO CANYON
27 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFalcon Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
27 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National Forest300M

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in El Paso County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Chipita Park: 8 past producers, 6 producers, 2 unknowns, 2 occurrences. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Fluorine-Fluorite, Quartz. 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
AvengersStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Camp Creek MineSilver, GoldOccurrence
Green Mountain Falls DistrictIron, Manganese, Gold, Lead, ZincPast Producer1904, 1958
Holly #1Limestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Iron King MineLead, Gold, Zinc, ManganeseOccurrenceVein
UnknownVermiculiteUnknown
Cascade-Ute PassFluorine-FluoritePast ProducerFluorite
Cascade-Ute PassFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
NavajoQuartzProducer
NavajoQuartzPast Producer

Every working recorded in El Paso County

Storms near this place

9 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chipita Park in 9 storm reports between 2003 and 2021: 4 flash flood, 3 hail, 1 lightning, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2003LightningChipita Park1 hurtno account filed
July 2012Flash FloodChipita Park$15,000,000no account filed
August 2021Heavy RainChipita Park-Heavy rainfall of 2.33 inches.
July 2014Flash FloodChipita Park-Heavy rain on the Waldo Canyon burn scar caused flooding on US Highway 24, along with mud flows. The flooding extended down to Waldo Canyon and into Manitou Springs.
July 2012Flash FloodChipita Park-no account filed
July 2012Flash FloodChipita Park-no account filed
July 2004HailChipita Park-no account filed
July 2004HailChipita Park-no account filed
May 2003HailChipita Park-no account filed

Every storm recorded in El Paso 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
Cascade2.6 miles34
Minnehaha5.7 miles37
Midway5.9 miles37
Old Mountain View (historical)6.3 miles37
Manitou Springs6.5 miles37
Glen Eyrie6.9 miles34
Pikeview9.8 miles32
Roswell10.5 miles32

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 203531. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.