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Rock Creek Park, Colorado

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Cheyenne Mountain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80926. The Survey maps it on the Cheyenne Mountain quadrangle. 68 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,263 feet above sea level.

Rock Creek Park within El Paso County

Population over time

2 figures

Rock Creek Park grew from 58 to 68 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
201058
202068+10 (+17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 34 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

129 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Rock Creek Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,846 acres in total. 15 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/undetermined88
Natural15
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

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 2016Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouthwest Highway 115 Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresEl Paso CountyUNKNOWN
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersHWY 115
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersCOLORADO SPRINGS
5 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
27 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
23 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreColorado Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersCOLORADO SPRINGS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in El Paso County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 38 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Rock Creek Park: 17 past producers, 14 producers, 3 occurrences, 2 prospects. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium, Copper. 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
Blue Bird MineUranium, Beryllium, Niobium (Columbium)Past ProducerColumbite
Cheyenne DistrictFluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Gold, Silver, Zinc, Thorium, Gemstone, REE, Niobium (Columbium), Beryllium, Titanium, Metal, Tin, UraniumProducer1901, 1910, 1945
Duffields DepositFluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Lead, Zinc, SilverPast Producer1901, 1910, 1945
Eureka ShaftFluorine-Fluorite, Gemstone, Titanium, MetalPast ProducerCryolite, Fluorite
Eureka TunnelFluorine-Fluorite, ZirconiumPast Producer
Fountain Creek Magnetite DepositIron, Titanium, MetalPast Producer
JohnnyFeldspar, QuartzPast Producer
Johnny Feldspar MineFeldspar, Mica, QuartzPast ProducerMicrocline, Muscovite, Quartz
Johnny Feldspar MineFeldspar, MicaProducer
Mike Doyle Carnotite DepositUranium, VanadiumPast Producer1949

Every working recorded in El Paso 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
Fort Carson3.6 miles34
Duffield4.8 miles32
Green Settlement5.8 miles37
Stratmoor5.8 miles32
Stratmoor Hills6.0 miles32
Skinners6.2 miles32
Security6.4 miles32
Broadmoor6.4 miles32

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 Rock Creek ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5847507The 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 193611. 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.