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Cherry Knolls, Colorado

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Southwest Arapahoe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80122. The Survey maps it on the Highlands Ranch quadrangle.

Cherry Knolls within Arapahoe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

701 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 701 fires within 5 miles of Cherry Knolls between 1996 and 2020, burning about 171 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/undetermined562
Smoking48
Equipment and vehicle use27
Natural17
Arson/incendiarism13
Fireworks12
Recreation and ceremony11
Debris and open burning4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
9 September 2017Smokingunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
7 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreDenver Fire DepartmentN/A
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
4 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersENGLEWOOD
3 September 2019Missing 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 Arapahoe County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Cherry Knolls: 13 occurrences, 12 producers, 9 unknowns, 1 past producer. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Big Dry Creek PlacersGoldOccurrence1858
Big Dry Creek PlacersGoldUnknown
Cherry Creek MineGoldPast Producer
Little Dry Creek PlacersGoldOccurrencePlacer
Little Dry Creek PlacersGoldUnknown
Central Construction PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cherry Creek Sand PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Clarke PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Arapahoe County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cherry Knolls in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2014HailCherry Knolls-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Arapahoe 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
Southglenn0.3 miles26
Broadway Estates1.7 miles26
Greenwood Village1.8 miles26
Palos Verdes2.0 miles26
Cherry Ridge2.5 miles27
Castlewood2.7 miles26
Willow Creek3.2 miles26
Cherry Hills Village3.5 miles27

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 Q122566699The 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 2110917. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.