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Cuerna Verde Park, Colorado

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Colorado City-Rye census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81069. It lies near Huckleberry Hills. The Survey maps it on the Rye quadrangle.

Cuerna Verde Park within Pueblo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 23 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

123 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Cuerna Verde Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 153 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined85
Natural25
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
3 September 1995Naturalunder an acrePueblo Countynot named
28 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRye Fire Protection DepartmentUNKNOWN
27 September 1992Naturalunder an acreHuerfano Countynot named
22 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestLOG
18 September 1995Naturalunder an acrePueblo Countynot named
14 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRye Fire Protection DepartmentUNKNOWN
9 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRye Fire Protection DepartmentUNKNOWN
8 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRye Fire Protection DepartmentUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pueblo County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Cuerna Verde Park: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Vermiculite. 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
San Isabel DepositVermiculitePast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Pueblo 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
Rye2.2 miles23
Greenhorn6.3 miles17
Colorado City7.4 miles17
Valley View10.1 miles22
Beulah Valley10.4 miles22
Beulah10.6 miles22
Cedar Grove10.7 miles22
Goodpasture11.5 miles22

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 Q122559894The 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 193914. 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.