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Cherry Creek Highlands, Colorado

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Parker census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80134. It lies near Oak Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Parker quadrangle.

Cherry Creek Highlands within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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

376 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 376 fires within 5 miles of Cherry Creek Highlands between 1994 and 2020, burning about 212 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined261
Equipment and vehicle use31
Smoking20
Natural17
Arson/incendiarism13
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Recreation and ceremony7
Other causes5
Fireworks5
Debris and open burning5

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
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
8 September 1994Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreDouglas Countynot named
5 September 1995Naturalunder an acreDouglas Countynot named
4 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
3 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
29 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
29 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 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Cherry Creek Highlands: 4 occurrences, 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Feldspar. 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSedimentary
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Newlin Gulch Gold OccurrenceGoldOccurrencePlacer
Newlin Gulch PlacerGoldOccurrence1895
SandpitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
ClaypitClayProducer
ClaypitClayProducer
MadisClayPast Producer

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
Parker1.8 miles24
Clarke Farms1.8 miles24
Stonegate2.2 miles24
Stepping Stone2.3 miles24
Richlawn Hills2.5 miles28
Sierra Ridge2.7 miles24
Pine Valley2.9 miles24
Meridian Village2.9 miles24

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 Q122565734The 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 2084067. 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.