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Dove Valley, Colorado

24 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 80112. The Survey maps it on the Parker quadrangle. 5,640 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Dove Valley within Arapahoe County

Population over time

2 figures

Dove Valley grew from 5,243 to 5,640 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20105,243
20205,640+397 (+8%)

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

653 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 653 fires within 5 miles of Dove Valley between 1994 and 2020, burning about 234 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined501
Smoking43
Equipment and vehicle use30
Natural20
Arson/incendiarism19
Fireworks13
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Other causes3

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
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCunningham Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAurora Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
7 September 2015Naturalunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAurora Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
5 September 1995Naturalunder an acreDouglas Countynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Arapahoe County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Dove Valley: 8 occurrences, 6 unknowns, 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Happy Canyon Creek Gold OccurrenceGold, SilverOccurrencePlacer
MadisClayPast Producer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cherry Creek MineGoldPast Producer
Cherry Creek PlacersGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Cherry Creek PlacersGoldUnknown
Newlin Gulch Gold OccurrenceGoldOccurrencePlacer
Cherry Creek Sand PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working 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
Algonquin Acres1.4 miles24
Inverness1.7 miles24
Southfield Park1.7 miles24
Cherry Creek East2.1 miles24
Foxfield2.2 miles24
Centennial2.5 miles26
Piney Creek3.4 miles24
Chapparal3.4 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.

Wikipedia article on Dove ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5302413The 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 2631649. 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.