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Paramount Heights, Colorado

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Northeast Jefferson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80215. It lies near Lena Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Arvada quadrangle.

Paramount 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

1,344 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,344 fires within 5 miles of Paramount Heights between 2003 and 2020, burning about 322 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 29 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/undetermined1122
Equipment and vehicle use54
Smoking38
Arson/incendiarism29
Recreation and ceremony21
Fireworks19
Debris and open burning18
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Natural13
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Other causes1

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 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWest Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersARVADA
9 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWest Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWest Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWest Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Paramount Heights: 13 occurrences, 10 past producers, 5 producers, 2 unknowns. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Clay, Sodium. 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
Rio Grande PitSand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, SilverPast Producer1973
Soda Lakes, Soda SpringsSodiumProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Coon Gulch Clay PitsClayOccurrenceClay
Lakewood PlantClayProducer
Linda 1&2 MineGoldOccurrence
Swadley PlacersGoldPast Producer1858, 1859
UnknownClayOccurrenceClay
Youngfield PitSand and Gravel, Construction, GoldPast Producer1979
Allied Dirt Div Green Mtn PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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
Rolling Hills0.5 miles24
Westhaven0.8 miles24
Cambridge Park0.9 miles24
Wildwood1.1 miles24
Applewood Village1.1 miles28
Applewood Glen1.4 miles25
Happy Valley Gardens1.4 miles24
Melrose1.6 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 Q122590275The 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 2120009. 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.