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Founders Village, 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 80104. The Survey maps it on the Castle Rock North quadrangle.

Founders Village 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

388 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 388 fires within 5 miles of Founders Village between 1993 and 2020, burning about 3,343 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined303
Equipment and vehicle use21
Natural15
Smoking14
Arson/incendiarism12
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Recreation and ceremony6
Debris and open burning4
Fireworks3

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
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
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCastle Rock Fire & Rescue DepartmentN/A
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCastle Rock Fire & Rescue DepartmentUNKNOWN
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 42 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of Founders Village: 26 producers, 6 occurrences, 5 past producers, 5 unknowns. 26 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Johnson, Scott, & BrickyardFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence
M Y MGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
UnknownStone, DimensionProducerTuff
Unnamed Gold OccurrenceSilver, GoldOccurrencePlacer
Leonard MineManganeseOccurrencePsilomelane
Leonard MineManganeseUnknown1952
Unnamed Gold OccurrenceGold, SilverOccurrencePlacer
Unnamed Gold OccurrenceGold, SilverOccurrencePlacer
ClaypitClayProducer
ClaypitClayProducer

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
Castle Oaks1.1 miles28
Castlewood North1.8 miles28
Castle Rock2.5 miles28
Franktown3.1 miles28
Silver Heights4.2 miles28
Burning Tree Ranch4.3 miles30
Village Pines4.5 miles30
Happy Canyon5.2 miles28

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 Q122589307The 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 2085589. 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.