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Loveland Heights, Colorado

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Estes Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80515. It lies near Mount Olympus. The Survey maps it on the Glen Haven quadrangle.

Loveland Heights within Larimer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

245 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 245 fires within 5 miles of Loveland Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 64 acres in total. 60 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined153
Natural60
Recreation and ceremony14
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2

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 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandSOULSHINE
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEstes Valley Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
9 September 2000Naturalunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandPIPER MEADOWS
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEstes Valley Fire Protection DistrictN/A
8 September 2018Naturalunder an acreEstes Valley Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEstes Valley Fire Protection DistrictN/A
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEstes Valley Fire Protection DistrictN/A
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEstes Valley Fire Protection DistrictN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Larimer County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Loveland Heights: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tantalum. 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
Estes PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mt Olympia MineMica, TantalumPast Producer
Greeno Nos 1-20MicaPast Producer
Mt. OlympiaMicaOccurrence

Every working recorded in Larimer 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
Glen Comfort1.3 miles23
Olympus Heights1.3 miles23
Estes Park3.2 miles30
Glen Haven4.5 miles23
Beaver Point4.6 miles31
Waltonia5.6 miles23
Drake7.2 miles23
Midway8.0 miles23

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 Q122541892The 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 177641. 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.