Pine Valley, Colorado

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.

• 1890 USGS East Denver quadrangle1:125000
• 1940 USGS Piney Creek quadrangle1:24000
• 1942 USGS Piney Creek quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1957 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Piney Creek quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Piney Creek quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
• 1981 USGS Denver East quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 484 fires within 5 miles of Pine Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 341 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 20 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Homestead Hills
• Saddlebrook
• Parker
• Ponderosa East
• Ponderosa Hills
• Clarke Farms

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Pine Valley: 2 past producers, 2 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Feldspar, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Douglas County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2354495. 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.