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Holiday Hills Village, Colorado

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the West Adams census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80260. The Survey maps it on the Arvada quadrangle.

Holiday Hills Village within Adams County

On record in Holiday Hills Village

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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

933 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 933 fires within 5 miles of Holiday Hills Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 162 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 35 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/undetermined789
Arson/incendiarism35
Smoking31
Fireworks19
Recreation and ceremony18
Equipment and vehicle use14
Debris and open burning11
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersWESTMINSTER
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Metro Fire Rescue DistrictN/A
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Metro Fire Rescue DistrictN/A
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Metro Fire Rescue DistrictUNKNOWN
7 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreThornton Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Metro Fire Rescue DistrictUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 71 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 71 workings within 5 miles of Holiday Hills Village: 44 past producers, 16 unknowns, 8 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Adams North PitSand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, SilverPast Producer1956
UnknownGold, Silver, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerPlacer
UnknownGold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, SilverOccurrence
Cooley Gravel Co. PitsSand and Gravel, Construction, GoldPast Producer1951, 1964
Gordon PitSand and Gravel, Construction, GoldPast ProducerGold, Sand and Gravel
Thornton PitSand and Gravel, Construction, GoldProducer1980
Adams County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Adams County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Albert Frei & Sons Sand and Gr PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Brannan Sand and Gravel Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Adams 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
Homestead Heights0.4 miles24
Kimberly Hills0.5 miles24
Northborough Heights1.1 miles20
Federal Heights1.1 miles28
Sunset Ridge1.4 miles24
Sherrelwood Estates1.5 miles24
Westview1.7 miles20
Northglenn1.8 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.

Wikidata item Q122594267The 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 2108209. 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.