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Palos Verdes, Colorado

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Southwest Arapahoe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80111. The Survey maps it on the Highlands Ranch quadrangle.

Palos Verdes within Arapahoe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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

654 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 654 fires within 5 miles of Palos Verdes between 1994 and 2020, burning about 164 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined520
Smoking42
Equipment and vehicle use27
Arson/incendiarism19
Natural14
Recreation and ceremony14
Fireworks8
Debris and open burning5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes2

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
9 September 2017Smokingunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
7 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreDenver Fire DepartmentN/A
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersDENVER
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
4 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
4 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCunningham Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Arapahoe County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Palos Verdes: 7 occurrences, 7 unknowns, 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, 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
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Big Dry Creek PlacersGoldOccurrence1858
Big Dry Creek PlacersGoldUnknown
Cherry Creek MineGoldPast Producer
Little Dry Creek PlacersGoldOccurrencePlacer
Cherry Creek Sand PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Englewood PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Arapahoe 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
Castlewood1.7 miles26
Cherry Ridge1.8 miles27
Greenwood Village1.9 miles26
Cherry Knolls2.0 miles26
Southglenn2.2 miles26
Willow Creek2.6 miles26
Cherry Creek2.7 miles27
Centennial2.9 miles26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2110920. 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.