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Perry Park, Colorado

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Castle Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80118. It stands on Perry Park. The Survey maps it on the Dawson Butte quadrangle. 1,932 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,467 feet above sea level.

Perry Park within Douglas County

Population over time

2 figures

Perry Park grew from 1,646 to 1,932 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,646
20201,932+286 (+17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 28 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

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Perry Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. 36 started naturally. 4 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
Natural36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Recreation and ceremony7
Arson/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
9 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDouglas Countynot named
8 September 2009Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestFRED
28 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDouglas Countynot named
26 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDouglas Countynot named
26 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresDouglas Countynot named
25 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
15 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLarkspur Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
10 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDouglas Countynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Perry Park: 17 past producers, 3 producers, 2 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar, REE, Feldspar, Quartz, Quartz. 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
Cramer QuarryFeldspar, REE, Thorium, UraniumPast Producer1942, 1951
Denver QuarryFeldspar, BerylliumPast Producer1949
Devils Head CopperCopperPast Producer
Larkspur PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Little AnnaFeldspar, Quartz, MicaProducerBiotite, Quartz
Little JoeStone, FeldsparPast Producer
Perry ParkGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Rusty PickFeldspar, Mica, Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrenceBiotite, Feldspar
Skeleton No. 2 QuarryQuartz, Feldspar, REEPast Producer1972
Three MuskateersREE, Mica, Feldspar, Fluorine-Fluorite, QuartzProducerBiotite, Fluorite, Monazite, Quartz

Every working recorded in Douglas 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
Larkspur5.9 miles27
Tomah6.3 miles28
Shamballah-Ashrama6.3 miles29
Monte Vista Estates8.4 miles28
Greenland8.9 miles23
Spruce9.2 miles27
Sprucewood9.3 miles29
Pine Nook9.7 miles33

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 Perry ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1843374The 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 1852847. 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.