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Ponderosa East, Colorado

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Parker census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80138. The Survey maps it on the Piney Creek quadrangle.

Ponderosa East within Douglas 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

247 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 247 fires within 5 miles of Ponderosa East between 1992 and 2020, burning about 288 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined153
Equipment and vehicle use27
Natural20
Smoking15
Arson/incendiarism12
Other causes6
Fireworks5
Recreation and ceremony4
Debris and open burning3
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
5 September 1995Naturalunder an acreDouglas Countynot named
3 September 2010Naturalunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
23 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
21 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
2 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAurora Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
19 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
19 September 2008Naturalunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
18 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ponderosa East: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese. 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
Buckley Field Mn Deposit #1ManganeseUnknown
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Douglas 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 Hills3.3 miles24
Homestead Hills3.3 miles24
Saddlebrook3.9 miles24
Pine Valley4.0 miles24
Windy Hills4.3 miles30
Crestview4.7 miles30
Parker5.2 miles24
Hidden Vilage6.0 miles30

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 Q122564353The 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 1947705. 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.