Heather Ridge, Colorado

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.

• 1890 USGS East Denver quadrangle1:125000
• 1935 USGS East Denver Nos. 3 and 4 quadrangle1:48000
• 1941 USGS Fitzsimons quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Fitzsimons quadrangle1:24000
• 1953 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1957 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Fitzsimons quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Fitzsimons quadrangle1:24000, 8 printings
• 1981 USGS Denver East quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 891 fires within 5 miles of Heather Ridge between 1995 and 2020, burning about 308 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 45 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Peoria Park
• Village East
• Centrepoint
• Chadsford
• Eastridge
• Hallcrafts Village East

Every fire recorded in Arapahoe County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Heather Ridge: 7 unknowns, 5 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Arapahoe County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2354652. 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.