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Pawnee Hills, Colorado

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Elizabeth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80107. The Survey maps it on the Ponderosa Park quadrangle.

Pawnee Hills within Elbert County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 30 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

83 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Pawnee Hills between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,631 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined62
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersELIZABETH
9 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
31 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersELIZABETH
22 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDouglas Countynot named
22 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDouglas Countynot named
11 August 2013Naturalunder an acreFranktown Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
11 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersELIZABETH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elbert County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Pawnee Hills: 8 producers, 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silver. 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/BrokenUnknown
Ronk Creek Placer OccurrenceGold, SilverOccurrenceGold
Russellville Gulch PlacerGoldPast Producer1858
UnknownGoldPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Elbert 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
Ponderosa Park1.3 miles30
Cimarron1.5 miles30
Elizabeth3.2 miles27
Prairie Trail Ranches5.3 miles30
Parker Highlands5.4 miles30
Kiowa9.7 miles15
Elbert13.1 miles25
Fondis19.7 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2088862. 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.