Meeker Park, Colorado

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 1 record

• Sandbeach Lake Traillisted 2008

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.

• 1915 USGS Longs Peak quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1915 USGS Rocky Mountain National Park quadrangle1:125000
• 1919 USGS Rocky Mountain National Park quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
• 1954 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Allens Park quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
• 1957 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Estes Park quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Meeker Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 25 acres in total. 20 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Allenspark
• Ferncliff
• Arrowood
• Big Elk Meadows
• Pine Valley
• Raymond

Every fire recorded in Boulder County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Meeker Park: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Beryllium, Zinc, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Boulder County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Meeker Park in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2015: 2 hail, 1 lightning, 1 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.

Every storm recorded in Boulder County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 178235. 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.