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Pine Valley, Colorado

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Idaho Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80439. It lies near Shaffer Hill. The Survey maps it on the Saddleback Mountain quadrangle. 363 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 8,412 feet above sea level.

Pine Valley within Clear Creek County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

72 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Pine Valley between 1995 and 2020, burning about 277 acres in total. 11 started naturally. None 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/undetermined54
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2019Naturalunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
27 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandWARRIOR MOUNTAIN
24 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreEvergreen Fire/RescueUNKNOWN
20 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreEvergreen Fire/RescueUNKNOWN
17 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreClear Creek County OfficeFREIGHT STATION
17 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreEvergreen Fire/RescueUNKNOWN
14 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEvergreen Fire/RescueUNKNOWN
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clear Creek County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 71 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 71 workings within 5 miles of Pine Valley: 28 past producers, 25 producers, 15 occurrences, 2 prospects. 25 still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar, Beryllium, Gold, Quartz. 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
AjaxMica, Feldspar, QuartzProducerFeldspar, Mica, Quartz
Ajax Mica MineMica, Feldspar, QuartzPast Producer
Beaver BrookFeldspar, UraniumPast Producer
Burroughs Feldspar MineFeldspar, Beryllium, Mica, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, Bismuth, REE, Uranium, Thorium, LithiumPast Producer1942, 1944
Capitol Central MineLead, Zinc, Silver, GoldOccurrenceGalena, Sphalerite
East Shaffer Hill PegmatiteFeldspar, Tantalum, Copper, REEPast Producer1938, 1945
EdwardsStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
GroverBeryllium, Niobium (Columbium), REE, Tantalum, Mica, FeldsparProducerBeryl, Columbite, Feldspar, Mica, Monazite, Tantalite
GroverUranium, REE, Zinc, Tantalum, Niobium (Columbium), Beryllium, GarnetOccurrenceBeryl, Columbite, Gahnite, Garnet, Monazite, Tantalite
GroverFeldspar, Beryllium, Mica, REE, TantalumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clear Creek 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
Echo Hills1.4 miles18
Upper Witter Gulch2.4 miles18
Blue Valley4.2 miles18
Brookvale4.4 miles18
Argo Mill6.1 miles28
Idaho Springs6.4 miles28
Gilson Gulch7.0 miles27
Black Eagle Mill7.6 miles28

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 ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q104880119The 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 2804565. 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.