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Harry Parker Place, Colorado

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Somerset census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81434. It stands on Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bull Mountain quadrangle.

Harry Parker Place within Gunnison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

8 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Harry Parker Place between 2002 and 2018, burning about 37 acres in total. 6 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
Natural6
Debris and open burning2

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
7 August 2002Naturalunder an acreGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National ForestsTERROR CREEK
28 August 2018Naturalunder an acreGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National ForestsROCK CREEK
22 August 2003Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseBEATON
1 July 2006Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseBALD EAGLE MINE
22 June 2016Naturalunder an acreGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National ForestsMUDDY CREEK
9 April 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionSUBSTATION
8 April 2012Debris and open burning35 acresGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National ForestsLITTLE HENDERSON
12 October 2017Natural1.0 acresGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National ForestsCONDEMN IT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gunnison 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
Patterson Place5.1 miles14
Somerset8.7 miles21
Marble14.9 miles13
Crystal19.5 miles17
Pittsburg22.6 miles27
Irwin23.3 miles26
Floresta23.4 miles26
Ruby23.6 miles26

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 Q122565397The 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 175477. 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.