Blue Valley, Colorado

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Idaho Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80452. It lies near Santa Fe Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Saddleback Mountain quadrangle.

Blue Valley within Clear Creek County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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.

1899 USGS West Denver quadrangle1:125000
1953 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1957 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Squaw Pass quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1958 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Denver West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

52 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Blue Valley between 1993 and 2020, burning about 218 acres in total. 11 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/undetermined	22
Natural	11
Recreation and ceremony	10
Debris and open burning	2
Fireworks	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	not named
24 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Evergreen Fire/Rescue	UNKNOWN
17 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Clear Creek County Office	FREIGHT STATION
17 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	BARBOUR FORK
17 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	SODA CREEK
14 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Evergreen Fire/Rescue	UNKNOWN
7 August 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	DEVIL
28 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	WHITTER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clear Creek County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 475 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 475 workings within 5 miles of Blue Valley: 413 past producers, 27 producers, 26 occurrences, 4 prospects. 28 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Ajax	Mica, Feldspar, Quartz	Producer	Feldspar, Mica, Quartz
Ajax Mica Mine	Mica, Feldspar, Quartz	Past Producer
Alma-Lincoln Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Uranium	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Enargite, Galena, Polybasite, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Tennantite, Gold, Cerussite, Chalcocite, Covellite
Argo	Lead, Copper, Zinc, Gold, Silver, Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer	Galena, Pyrite
Banty	Gold, Copper, Zinc, Silver	Past Producer	Pyrite, Galena
Beaver Brook	Feldspar, Uranium	Past Producer
Becky Sharp	Gold, Silver, Copper	Past Producer
Bellevue	Lead, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Black Bear Mine	Lead, Silver, Gold	Occurrence
Bride Vein Idaho Tunnel	Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc	Producer	Vein

Every working recorded in Clear Creek 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Argo Mill	3.1 miles	28
Idaho Springs	3.2 miles	28
Black Eagle Mill	3.6 miles	28
Pine Valley	4.2 miles	18
Upper Witter Gulch	4.2 miles	18
Echo Hills	4.3 miles	18
Gilson Gulch	4.4 miles	27
Brookvale	6.1 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 182064. 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.