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Castle Oaks, Colorado

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Parker census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80108. The Survey maps it on the Castle Rock North quadrangle.

Castle Oaks within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

411 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 411 fires within 5 miles of Castle Oaks between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,982 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined321
Equipment and vehicle use20
Natural19
Smoking14
Arson/incendiarism12
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Recreation and ceremony7
Debris and open burning4
Fireworks3

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 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCastle Rock Fire & Rescue DepartmentUNKNOWN
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
7 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresCastle Rock Fire & Rescue DepartmentUNKNOWN
7 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCastle Rock Fire & Rescue DepartmentUNKNOWN
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCastle Rock Fire & Rescue DepartmentN/A
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCastle Rock Fire & Rescue DepartmentUNKNOWN
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCastle Rock Fire & Rescue DepartmentUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Castle Oaks: 22 producers, 5 past producers, 5 unknowns, 5 occurrences. 22 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
M Y MGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
UnknownStone, DimensionProducerTuff
Unnamed Gold OccurrenceSilver, GoldOccurrencePlacer
Leonard MineManganeseOccurrencePsilomelane
Leonard MineManganeseUnknown1952
Unnamed Gold OccurrenceGold, SilverOccurrencePlacer
Unnamed Gold OccurrenceGold, SilverOccurrencePlacer
ClaypitClayProducer
ClaypitClayProducer
ClaypitClayProducer

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
Founders Village1.1 miles28
Castlewood North1.9 miles28
Castle Rock2.8 miles28
Franktown3.1 miles28
Silver Heights3.4 miles28
Burning Tree Ranch4.2 miles30
Happy Canyon4.3 miles28
Happy Canyon Ranches4.4 miles28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2085588. 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.