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Clark, Colorado

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Steamboat Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80428. It lies near Cottonwood Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Clark quadrangle. It stands 7,260 feet above sea level.

Clark within Routt County

On record in Clark

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Clark between 1992 and 2018, burning about 26 acres in total. 10 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
Natural10
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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 2002Naturalunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandGREENVILLE
26 September 2010Smoking8.0 acresMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandCOULTON
23 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland471
2 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Routt Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
13 September 2000Naturalunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandOAK CREEK
8 August 2002Naturalunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandWILLOW CREEK
29 August 2009Naturalunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandTAYLOR CANYON
28 August 2001Naturalunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandPEARL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Routt County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Clark: 2 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Copper, Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver. 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
Gate, Jgb, Grover Clevland, Ben Harrison, El Capitan PlacersGoldOccurrencePlacer
Greenville MineZinc, Copper, Gold, Lead, SilverPast Producer
Greenville ShaftLead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, CopperProspect
UnknownZinc, Copper, LeadOccurrence

Every working recorded in Routt County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clark in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 1 hail, 1 tornado, 1 debris flow, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
May 2023Debris FlowClark-A large mudslide occurred as a result of rapid snowmelt on County Road 129 south of Clark near Fetcher Ranch.
May 2023FloodClark-Seedhouse Road in Routt County northeast of Clark was closed between mile markers 3 and 5 as a result of flooding.
June 2018Tornado (EF0)Clark-A relatively high-elevation tornado in the Routt National Forest was observed by numerous individuals in Routt County. The rotational winds reached the ground initially near the 8900 foot level. Although the rotational winds were on the ground for no more than a couple of minutes, the associated condensation funnel existed for about 10 minutes. A debris cloud which indicated wind rotation on the ground was observed by some eyewitnesses who photographed the tornado.
August 2009HailClark-Hail up to 1.25 inches in diameter pummeled a forested area southeast of Steamboat Lake.

Every storm recorded in Routt 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
Glen Eden0.8 miles20
Mad Creek9.8 miles18
Mystic10.2 miles18
Columbine10.5 miles20
Slavonia12.6 miles23
Steamboat II13.7 miles18
Elkhead15.8 miles21
Steamboat Springs15.9 miles12

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.

Wikipedia article on ClarkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5127117The 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 172283. 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.