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Switzerland Park, Colorado

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Bald Mountain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80302. It lies near Upham Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Gold Hill quadrangle.

Switzerland Park within Boulder County

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

264 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 264 fires within 5 miles of Switzerland Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,599 acres in total. 52 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined104
Recreation and ceremony70
Natural52
Equipment and vehicle use13
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2
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
8 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandIA 657
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNederland Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNederland Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
7 September 1994Naturalunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandHAWKINS
7 September 1994Naturalunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandNORTH EAST SUGARLOAF
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-Boulder Districtnot named
6 September 2010Debris and open burning6,382 acresRoyal Gorge Field OfficeFOURMILE CANYON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boulder County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 476 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 476 workings within 5 miles of Switzerland Park: 311 past producers, 112 occurrences, 43 producers, 7 unknowns. 44 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Tungsten, Silver, Gold, Silver. 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
Clark TunnelTungsten, Silver, GoldUnknown
Cobalt Gold Mining CoNickel, GoldPast Producer
Copper GlanceGold, CopperProducerVein
Copper GlanceGold, Talc-SoapstoneUnknown
Copper King MineCobalt, Copper, NickelPast Producer1880, 1940
Copper King Nickel MineCobalt, Nickel, CopperPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Niccolite, Pentlandite, Pyrrhotite
Fairday MineUranium, Lead, Silver, Fluorine-FluoriteProducerGalena, Pitchblende, Pyrite
Fools Paradise Number 1 and 2Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc, CopperPast Producer
Gina No 1 and 2Gold, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gold Hill DistrictSilver, Lead, Zinc, Gold, TelluriumPast Producer1859

Every working recorded in Boulder 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
Silver Springs1.4 miles28
Saint Ann Highlands1.5 miles25
Sugarloaf1.8 miles28
Aspen Meadows2.1 miles25
Ridgewood2.5 miles25
Sunnyside2.8 miles28
Bonanza Mountain Estates3.0 miles25
Sunset3.0 miles28

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 Q122560870The 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 178574. 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.