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Castle Pines, Colorado

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Sedalia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80108. The Survey maps it on the Sedalia quadrangle. 4,327 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,368 feet above sea level.

Castle Pines within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

252 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 252 fires within 5 miles of Castle Pines between 1992 and 2020, burning about 127 acres in total. 14 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/undetermined173
Smoking17
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use12
Arson/incendiarism12
Fireworks8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Debris and open burning3

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
7 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresCastle Rock Fire & Rescue DepartmentUNKNOWN
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCastle Rock Fire & Rescue DepartmentN/A
5 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
4 September 2017Smokingunder an acreCastle Rock Fire & Rescue DepartmentUNKNOWN
4 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCastle Rock Fire & Rescue DepartmentUNKNOWN
29 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
28 September 2018Smokingunder an acreCastle Rock Fire & Rescue DepartmentUNKNOWN
27 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Metro 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 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Castle Pines: 8 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Clay, 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Happy Canyon Creek Gold OccurrenceGold, SilverOccurrencePlacer
Newlin GulchFeldsparPast Producer
Newlin Gulch PlacerGoldOccurrence1895
Ute MineClayProducer
QuarryStoneProducer
QuarryStoneProducer
SedaliaStoneProducer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

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
Castle Pines North0.9 miles26
Beverly Hills1.5 miles26
Castle Pines Village1.8 miles26
Happy Canyon Ranches2.0 miles28
Happy Canyon2.1 miles28
Orsa2.6 miles26
Surrey Ridge2.8 miles26
Silver Heights3.2 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.

Wikipedia article on Castle PinesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q15789007The 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 1852840. 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.