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Castlewood North, 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 80116. It stands on Willow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Castle Rock North quadrangle.

Castlewood North 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

328 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 328 fires within 5 miles of Castlewood North between 1993 and 2020, burning about 3,377 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined262
Equipment and vehicle use15
Natural13
Smoking10
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning4
Fireworks2

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
9 September 1994Naturalunder an acreDouglas Countynot 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
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
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 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Castlewood North: 13 producers, 6 unknowns, 5 past producers, 5 occurrences. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver. 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
Russellville Gulch PlacerGoldPast Producer1858
Unnamed Gold OccurrenceSilver, GoldOccurrencePlacer
Leonard MineManganeseOccurrencePsilomelane
Leonard MineManganeseUnknown1952
Unnamed Gold OccurrenceGold, SilverOccurrencePlacer
Unnamed Gold OccurrenceGold, SilverOccurrencePlacer
Castle RockStonePast Producer
FranktownSand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
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
Franktown1.4 miles28
Founders Village1.8 miles28
Castle Oaks1.9 miles28
Burning Tree Ranch2.6 miles30
Village Pines2.8 miles30
Castle Rock4.3 miles28
Country Acres4.7 miles30
Bayou Hills4.8 miles30

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.

Wikidata item Q122569339The 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 2085587. 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.