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Homestead Hills, Colorado

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Parker census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80138. The Survey maps it on the Piney Creek quadrangle.

Homestead Hills within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

494 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 494 fires within 5 miles of Homestead Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 341 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 20 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/undetermined332
Equipment and vehicle use46
Natural31
Smoking28
Arson/incendiarism20
Recreation and ceremony9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Fireworks7
Other causes7
Debris and open burning6

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
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
8 September 1994Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreDouglas Countynot named
5 September 1995Naturalunder an acreDouglas Countynot named
4 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
3 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
3 September 2010Naturalunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Homestead Hills: 2 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, 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
Newlin Gulch Gold OccurrenceGoldOccurrencePlacer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSedimentary
ClaypitClayProducer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
MadisClayPast 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
Pine Valley0.8 miles24
Ponderosa Hills0.9 miles24
Saddlebrook1.0 miles24
Parker1.9 miles24
Clarke Farms3.1 miles24
Crestview3.2 miles30
Ponderosa East3.3 miles24
Cherry Creek Highlands3.7 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2354494. 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.