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Elephant Park, Colorado

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Central Jefferson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80439. It lies near Elephant Butte. The Survey maps it on the Evergreen quadrangle.

Elephant Park within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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

199 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 199 fires within 5 miles of Elephant Park between 1995 and 2020, burning about 103 acres in total. 11 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined173
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

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
8 September 2019Naturalunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
6 September 2009Naturalunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandRANCH
3 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEvergreen Fire/RescueUNKNOWN
27 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandWARRIOR MOUNTAIN
23 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEvergreen Fire/RescueUNKNOWN
20 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreEvergreen Fire/RescueUNKNOWN
17 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreEvergreen Fire/RescueUNKNOWN
17 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Elephant Park: 12 producers, 10 past producers, 2 occurrences. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar, Fluorine-Fluorite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Augusta MineCopper, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc, Lead, Gold, CobaltPast Producer1966
Bear CreekGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Burroughs Feldspar MineFeldspar, Beryllium, Mica, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, Bismuth, REE, Uranium, Thorium, LithiumPast Producer1942, 1944
Coors PegmatiteFeldspar, Mica, REEPast Producer1935, 1949
Evergreen Florite DepositFluorine-Fluorite, Copper, Gold, Lead, SilverPast Producer
Idealite MineClayPast Producer
Seven Hills-Yetter Ranch PegmatiteFeldspar, Mica, Quartz, Garnet, GemstoneOccurrenceBiotite, Garnet, Microcline, Muscovite, Quartz, Tourmaline
Silver Glen Ranch PegmatiteMica, Feldspar, Beryllium, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, REE, ThoriumPast Producer1945, 1956
Sunrise Peak MineQuartzPast Producer
Sunrise Peak PegmatiteNiobium (Columbium), Tantalum, REE, FeldsparPast ProducerEuxenite

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Troutdale1.0 miles24
Rosedale1.3 miles18
Hiwan Hills1.9 miles24
Evergreen2.4 miles24
Wah Keeney Park2.5 miles24
Sprucedale2.8 miles21
Herzman Mesa3.1 miles21
Brook Forest3.6 miles19

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 Q122541471The 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 182080. 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.