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Parkborough, Colorado

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the South Aurora census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80015. The Survey maps it on the Piney Creek quadrangle.

Parkborough within Arapahoe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

646 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 646 fires within 5 miles of Parkborough between 1994 and 2020, burning about 429 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 23 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/undetermined500
Equipment and vehicle use35
Smoking35
Arson/incendiarism23
Fireworks17
Natural15
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes3

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCunningham Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAurora Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAurora Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
7 September 2015Naturalunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAurora Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Arapahoe County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Parkborough: 4 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. 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
Cherry Creek PlacersGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

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
Park View0.5 miles24
Piney Creek Ranches1.6 miles24
Dove Hill1.6 miles24
Spring Creek Meadows2.0 miles23
Chapparal2.2 miles24
Summer Lake2.3 miles26
East Quincy Highlands2.3 miles23
Highpoint2.7 miles26

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 Q122541808The 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 2354590. 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.