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Ponderosa Hills, 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 Hills 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

546 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 546 fires within 5 miles of Ponderosa Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 372 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 18 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/undetermined377
Equipment and vehicle use48
Smoking32
Natural30
Arson/incendiarism18
Fireworks12
Recreation and ceremony9
Other causes7
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Debris and open burning6

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 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
5 September 1995Naturalunder an acreDouglas Countynot named
4 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
4 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
3 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCunningham Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
3 September 2013Equipment 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

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Ponderosa Hills: 2 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Newlin Gulch Gold OccurrenceGoldOccurrencePlacer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSedimentary
ClaypitClayProducer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
MadisClayPast Producer

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
Homestead Hills0.9 miles24
Pine Valley1.4 miles24
Saddlebrook1.9 miles24
Parker2.4 miles24
Clarke Farms3.2 miles24
Ponderosa East3.3 miles24
Cottonwood3.9 miles24
Stonegate3.9 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1947704. 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.