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Pine Brook Hill, Colorado

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Bald Mountain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80304. It lies near Mount Sanitas. The Survey maps it on the Boulder quadrangle. 975 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,400 feet above sea level.

Pine Brook Hill within Boulder County

Population over time

2 figures

Pine Brook Hill fell from 983 to 975 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010983
2020975-8 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 29 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

767 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 767 fires within 5 miles of Pine Brook Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,960 acres in total. 28 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/undetermined602
Equipment and vehicle use39
Smoking28
Natural28
Recreation and ceremony21
Arson/incendiarism19
Debris and open burning12
Fireworks10
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresBoulder Fire Rescue DepartmentUNKNOWN
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBoulder Fire Rescue DepartmentUNKNOWN
8 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBoulder Fire Rescue DepartmentUNKNOWN
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBoulder Fire Rescue DepartmentN/A
7 September 1994Naturalunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandNORTH EAST SUGARLOAF
6 September 2020Smokingunder an acreBoulder Fire Rescue DepartmentN/A
6 September 2010Debris and open burning6,382 acresRoyal Gorge Field OfficeFOURMILE CANYON
5 September 2020Naturalunder an acreBoulder Fire Rescue DepartmentN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boulder County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 381 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 381 workings within 5 miles of Pine Brook Hill: 225 past producers, 113 occurrences, 39 producers, 4 unknowns. 39 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Tungsten, Gold, 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
Beryl #2Niobium (Columbium), Feldspar, Beryllium, MicaProducerBeryl, Feldspar, Mica
Beryl No.1 & 2 ClaimsBeryllium, Mica, Niobium (Columbium), FeldsparPast Producer
ColumbineFeldspar, Mica, Beryllium, Niobium (Columbium), CopperProducerBeryl, Columbite, Feldspar, Malachite, Mica
Copper King Nickel MineNickelPast Producer
East BostonGold, Copper, Silver, LeadPast Producer
Elkhorn ProspectFeldspar, MicaOccurrence
Fairday MineUranium, Lead, Silver, Fluorine-FluoriteProducerGalena, Pitchblende, Pyrite
Five BrothersGold, LeadPast Producer
Gold Hill DistrictSilver, Lead, Zinc, Gold, TelluriumPast Producer1859
Goldsmith MaidGold, Lead, Silver, Uranium, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Boulder 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
Seven Hills1.6 miles29
Orodell2.5 miles29
Crisman2.6 miles29
Sunshine3.0 miles29
Salina3.1 miles29
Lazy Acres3.1 miles29
Tall Timber3.1 miles29
Boulder3.4 miles29

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.

Wikipedia article on Pine Brook HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7195080The 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 197727. 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.