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Heritage Hills, Colorado

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Sedalia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80124. It stands on Cook Creek. The Survey maps it on the Highlands Ranch quadrangle. 658 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 5,925 feet above sea level.

Heritage Hills within Douglas 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

507 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 507 fires within 5 miles of Heritage Hills between 1994 and 2020, burning about 150 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined387
Smoking38
Equipment and vehicle use19
Natural18
Arson/incendiarism16
Fireworks10
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony7
Other causes3
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
7 September 2015Naturalunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
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
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
3 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
3 September 2017Missing 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 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Heritage Hills: 8 occurrences, 6 producers, 5 unknowns, 3 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Big Dry Creek PlacersGoldUnknown
Cherry Creek MineGoldPast 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
Meridian1.2 miles24
Lone Tree1.2 miles24
Acres Green1.3 miles26
Park Meadows1.4 miles26
Carriage Club1.4 miles26
Gateway1.5 miles26
Inverness1.6 miles24
McArthur Ranch2.3 miles26

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 Heritage HillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2214037The 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 1852843. 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.