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Carriage Club, Colorado

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Sedalia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80124. It stands on Cook Creek. The Survey maps it on the Highlands Ranch quadrangle. 1,002 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 6,014 feet above sea level.

Carriage Club within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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

402 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 402 fires within 5 miles of Carriage Club between 1994 and 2020, burning about 128 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined310
Smoking32
Equipment and vehicle use13
Fireworks12
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural10
Recreation and ceremony6
Debris and open burning5
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
9 September 2017Smokingunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
4 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
29 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLittleton Fire RescueUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Carriage Club: 7 producers, 5 occurrences, 4 unknowns, 2 past producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Happy Canyon Creek Gold OccurrenceGold, SilverOccurrencePlacer
Newlin GulchFeldsparPast Producer
QuarryStoneProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
Big Dry Creek PlacersGoldUnknown
Cherry Creek MineGoldPast Producer
Little Dry Creek PlacersGoldOccurrencePlacer

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
McArthur Ranch1.1 miles26
Gateway1.2 miles26
Heritage Hills1.4 miles26
Acres Green1.7 miles26
Lone Tree2.1 miles24
Park Meadows2.5 miles26
Surrey Ridge2.6 miles26
Meridian2.6 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.

Wikipedia article on Carriage ClubAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1044988The 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 1852839. 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.