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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.

Glade Park within Mesa County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

103 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural77
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking2
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 1993Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionOAK HILL
4 September 2001Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionTIMBER RDG
4 September 2001Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionCLARK WSH2
4 September 2001Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionPAYNE WASH
4 September 2001Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionL DOLORES
3 September 2010Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionGRAHAM
29 September 1998Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionGORES RNCH
21 September 2000Naturalunder an acreColorado National MonumentLISAFIRE

Every fire recorded in Mesa 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kruckenburg QuarryStoneUnknown
UnknownSulfurOccurrence
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Mesa County

Storms near this place

13 since 2001

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2016LightningGlade Park1 hurtLightning struck a girl riding an ATV near Glade Park. The girl was injured but survived.
August 2013Flash FloodGlade Park-Water was seen running in excess of a foot deep through normally dry washes along Little Park Road.
July 2012Heavy RainGlade Park-Thunderstorms near Glade Park produced rainfall amounts near an inch in less than a half hour.
August 2006Heavy RainGlade Park-no account filed
September 2005Funnel CloudGlade Park-no account filed
September 2005Heavy RainGlade Park-no account filed
September 2005HailGlade Park-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindGlade Park-no account filed
August 2005Flash FloodGlade Park-no account filed
June 2003Heavy RainGlade Park-no account filed
June 2002WildfireGlade Park-no account filed
July 2001HailGlade Park-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindGlade Park-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mesa 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
Redlands8.1 miles17
Rosevale9.7 miles14
Rhone9.8 miles14
Durham9.9 miles14
Orchard Mesa10.6 miles14
Grand Junction11.2 miles14
Appleton11.3 miles14
Fruita11.4 miles14

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 ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5566229The 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.