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Mountain Meadow Heights, Colorado

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Central Jefferson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80439. It lies near Big Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Evergreen quadrangle.

Mountain Meadow Heights within Jefferson County

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

223 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 223 fires within 5 miles of Mountain Meadow Heights between 1995 and 2020, burning about 98 acres in total. 11 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined199
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersINDIAN HILLS
8 September 2019Naturalunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
8 September 2019Naturalunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGenesee Fire RescueUNKNOWN
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersIDLEDALE
27 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFoothills Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
23 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 44 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 44 workings within 5 miles of Mountain Meadow Heights: 20 producers, 18 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 unknowns. 20 still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Augusta MineCopper, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc, Lead, Gold, CobaltPast Producer1966
Bear CreekGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Blackstone ClaimUranium, Radium, VanadiumProspect
Burroughs Feldspar MineFeldspar, Beryllium, Mica, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, Bismuth, REE, Uranium, Thorium, LithiumPast Producer1942, 1944
C. P. Hoyts PitsClayProducerClay
Capitol CentralLead, Gold, Silver, ZincUnknown
Coors PegmatiteFeldspar, Mica, REEPast Producer1935, 1949
Evergreen Florite DepositFluorine-Fluorite, Copper, Gold, Lead, SilverPast Producer
FoothillsGold, SilverPast Producer
Genessee Mountain Scheelite OccurrenceTungstenOccurrenceScheelite

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Kittredge0.7 miles24
Wah Keeney Park1.7 miles24
Hiwan Hills1.8 miles24
Evergreen1.9 miles24
Genesee Ridge2.4 miles24
Genesee2.6 miles24
Troutdale2.6 miles24
Spring Ranch2.7 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 Q122589513The 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 2354968. 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.