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Park Center, Colorado

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Cañon City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81212. The Survey maps it on the Canon City quadrangle. 2,953 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,561 feet above sea level.

Park Center within Fremont County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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

667 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 667 fires within 5 miles of Park Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 234 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined558
Recreation and ceremony32
Natural25
Debris and open burning17
Smoking14
Firearms and explosives use5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism3
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCanon City Area Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
7 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCanon City Area Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCanon City Area Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCanon City Area Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCanon City Area Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Park Center: 16 producers, 11 past producers, 9 occurrences, 1 unknown. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Uranium. 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
Alnea, Horney Ganister, Burnito, Mccourt, Flint, Climax, DarleySilicaProducer
Devils Hole QuarryBeryllium, Mica, FeldsparProducer
Meyers MineFeldspar, Mica, Beryllium, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, Lithium, Uranium, Copper, Bismuth, LeadProducer1929, 1942
Suzana PegmatiteFeldspar, Beryllium, MicaOccurrence1940
UnknownDolomiteProducerDolomite
UnknownLimestone, GeneralProducerSedimentary
UnknownSilica, DolomiteProducerDolomite
Burnito GanisterStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerLimestone
Canon City Hot SpringsGeothermalUnknown
ColonnaMarble, DimensionProducerMetamorphic

Every working recorded in Fremont 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
Orchard Park1.2 miles24
East Canon1.8 miles24
Cañon City3.2 miles24
Lincoln Park3.4 miles24
Prospect Heights3.9 miles24
Brookside4.4 miles24
Buckskin Joe6.4 miles26
Williamsburg7.2 miles24

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 Park CenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q104880128The 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 191997. 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.