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Castle Pines North, 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. It sits by Wildcat Point. The Survey maps it on the Sedalia quadrangle. 10,360 people lived here at the 2010 count. It stands 6,368 feet above sea level.

Castle Pines North 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

253 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 253 fires within 5 miles of Castle Pines North between 1992 and 2020, burning about 130 acres in total. 15 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/undetermined169
Smoking19
Natural15
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use12
Fireworks7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony4
Debris and open burning4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Other causes2

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
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
27 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
22 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Castle Pines North: 10 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, 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
Happy Canyon Creek Gold OccurrenceGold, SilverOccurrencePlacer
Newlin GulchFeldsparPast Producer
Newlin Gulch PlacerGoldOccurrence1895
Ute MineClayProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
QuarryStoneProducer
QuarryStoneProducer
SedaliaStoneProducer
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
Beverly Hills0.9 miles26
Castle Pines0.9 miles26
Surrey Ridge1.9 miles26
Happy Canyon Ranches2.6 miles28
Castle Pines Village2.8 miles26
Happy Canyon2.8 miles28
McArthur Ranch3.2 miles26
Orsa3.6 miles26

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 Pines NorthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2068090The 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 2500982. 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.