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Wah Keeney Park, Colorado

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Central Jefferson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80439. It stands on Bergen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Evergreen quadrangle.

Wah Keeney Park within Jefferson 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

206 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 206 fires within 5 miles of Wah Keeney Park between 1995 and 2020, burning about 106 acres in total. 10 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined184
Natural10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

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 2019Naturalunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGenesee Fire RescueUNKNOWN
27 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandWARRIOR MOUNTAIN
24 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreEvergreen Fire/RescueUNKNOWN
23 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEvergreen Fire/RescueUNKNOWN
23 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
20 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreEvergreen Fire/RescueUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 49 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 49 workings within 5 miles of Wah Keeney Park: 21 past producers, 19 producers, 7 occurrences, 1 prospect. 19 still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar, Beryllium, Uranium, Gold. 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
Augusta MineCopper, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc, Lead, Gold, CobaltPast Producer1966
Bear CreekGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Beaver BrookFeldspar, UraniumPast Producer
Burroughs Feldspar MineFeldspar, Beryllium, Mica, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, Bismuth, REE, Uranium, Thorium, LithiumPast Producer1942, 1944
Capitol Central MineLead, Zinc, Silver, GoldOccurrenceGalena, Sphalerite
Coors PegmatiteFeldspar, Mica, REEPast Producer1935, 1949
East Shaffer Hill PegmatiteFeldspar, Tantalum, Copper, REEPast Producer1938, 1945
Evergreen Florite DepositFluorine-Fluorite, Copper, Gold, Lead, SilverPast Producer
Genessee Mountain Scheelite OccurrenceTungstenOccurrenceScheelite
Grapevine MineUranium, VanadiumPast Producer1955

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wah Keeney Park in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2014: 4 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2013Flash FloodWah Keeney Park-The combination of heavy rain, coupled with extremely saturated ground conditions, produced additional flash flooding.
June 2014HailWah Keeney Park-no account filed
June 2014HailWah Keeney Park-no account filed
July 2011HailWah Keeney Park-no account filed
June 2010HailWah Keeney Park-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Hiwan Hills1.5 miles24
Troutdale1.7 miles24
Mountain Meadow Heights1.7 miles24
Kittredge2.2 miles24
Evergreen2.2 miles24
Hidden Valley2.4 miles24
Bergen Park2.4 miles24
Elephant Park2.5 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.

Wikidata item Q122563679The 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 182085. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.