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Monument Park, Colorado

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Weston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81091. It lies near Hayrack Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Stonewall quadrangle.

Monument Park within Las Animas County

On record in Monument 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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Monument Park between 1992 and 2018, burning about 447 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 6 were 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/undetermined11
Natural8
Arson/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
4 September 2013Naturalunder an acreStonewall Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
29 September 2014Natural1.0 acresStonewall Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
4 August 2015Natural1.0 acresStonewall Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
27 August 1998Naturalunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficeBONES
3 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresStonewall Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
20 July 2003Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestPURGATOIRE
13 July 2017Natural1.0 acresStonewall Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
11 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreStonewall Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Las Animas 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
Stonewall Gap3.9 miles11
Stonewall4.1 miles11
Parras Plaza5.2 miles21
Vigil6.4 miles21
Zamara7.6 miles21
Torres9.5 miles12
Tercio11.0 miles21
Weston11.7 miles21

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 Q6906828The 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 193064. 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.