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Castle Pines Village, 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 lies near Haskins Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Sedalia quadrangle. 4,327 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Castle Pines Village 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

371 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 371 fires within 5 miles of Castle Pines Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,214 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined274
Natural19
Equipment and vehicle use19
Smoking17
Arson/incendiarism14
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Fireworks6
Recreation and ceremony5
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
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
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
4 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 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Castle Pines Village: 14 producers, 1 unknown, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension. 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
Newlin Gulch PlacerGoldOccurrence1895
UnknownStone, DimensionProducerTuff
Whisenhunt Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
SandpitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
ClaypitClayProducer
ClaypitClayProducer
ClaypitClayProducer
Ute MineClayProducer

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
Happy Canyon1.2 miles28
Orsa1.3 miles26
Happy Canyon Ranches1.6 miles28
Silver Heights1.7 miles28
Castle Pines1.8 miles26
Castle Pines North2.8 miles26
Beverly Hills3.1 miles26
Sedalia3.6 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 VillageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5050231The 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 2675245. 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.