Indian Hills, 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.

• 1899 USGS West Denver quadrangle1:125000
• 1945 USGS Indian Hills quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1957 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Indian Hills quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Indian Hills quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
• 1983 USGS Denver West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 211 fires within 5 miles of Indian Hills between 1995 and 2020, burning about 114 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 4 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:

• Lone Pine Estates
• Gems Park Estates
• Indians Hills
• Stanley Park
• Herzman Mesa
• Marshdale

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 59 workings within 5 miles of Indian Hills: 20 producers, 19 occurrences, 18 past producers, 1 unknown. 20 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Feldspar. 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 Jefferson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Indian Hills in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 7 hail, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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 196396. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.