Glade Park, Colorado
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Glade Park-Gateway census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81523. It stands on Cruse Wash. The Survey maps it on the Glade Park quadrangle. It stands 7,000 feet above sea level.
On record in Glade Park
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 2 records
Coates Creek Schoolhouselisted 1993
Pipe Line Schoollisted 1999
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1956 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Glade Park quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Delta quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
103 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Glade Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 79 acres in total. 77 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 77 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Grand Junction | OAK HILL |
| 4 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Grand Junction | TIMBER RDG |
| 4 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Grand Junction | CLARK WSH2 |
| 4 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Grand Junction | PAYNE WASH |
| 4 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Grand Junction | L DOLORES |
| 3 September 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Grand Junction | GRAHAM |
| 29 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Grand Junction | GORES RNCH |
| 21 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Colorado National Monument | LISAFIRE |
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Glade Park: 4 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kruckenburg Quarry | Stone | Unknown | ||
| Unknown | Sulfur | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Mine | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
13 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glade Park in 13 storm reports between 2001 and 2016: 4 heavy rain, 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2016 | Lightning | Glade Park | 1 hurt | Lightning struck a girl riding an ATV near Glade Park. The girl was injured but survived. |
| August 2013 | Flash Flood | Glade Park | - | Water was seen running in excess of a foot deep through normally dry washes along Little Park Road. |
| July 2012 | Heavy Rain | Glade Park | - | Thunderstorms near Glade Park produced rainfall amounts near an inch in less than a half hour. |
| August 2006 | Heavy Rain | Glade Park | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Glade Park | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Heavy Rain | Glade Park | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Glade Park | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glade Park | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Flash Flood | Glade Park | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Heavy Rain | Glade Park | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Wildfire | Glade Park | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Glade Park | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glade Park | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Redlands | 8.1 miles | 17 | |
| Rosevale | 9.7 miles | 14 | |
| Rhone | 9.8 miles | 14 | |
| Durham | 9.9 miles | 14 | |
| Orchard Mesa | 10.6 miles | 14 | |
| Grand Junction | 11.2 miles | 14 | |
| Appleton | 11.3 miles | 14 | |
| Fruita | 11.4 miles | 14 |
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 Glade Park | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5566229 | The 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 169586. 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.







