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Roxborough Park, Colorado

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Sedalia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80125. It stands on Little Willow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kassler quadrangle. 9,416 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,751 feet above sea level.

Roxborough Park within Douglas County

Population over time

2 figures

Roxborough Park grew from 9,099 to 9,416 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
20109,099
20209,416+317 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 33 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

95 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Roxborough Park between 1993 and 2020, burning about 776 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined38
Natural29
Smoking10
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks3
Debris and open burning1

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
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWest Metro Fire RescueN/A
5 September 2010Fireworks3.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
30 September 2001Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestWATERTON
28 September 2011Smoking20 acresRocky Flats National Wildlife RefugeINDIANA WF
2 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
11 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
11 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
31 August 2017Natural6.0 acresPike and San Isabel National ForestWATERTON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 59 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 59 workings within 5 miles of Roxborough Park: 30 producers, 17 occurrences, 11 past producers, 1 unknown. 30 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), 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
Bonzo No. 1 ClaimUranium, CopperOccurrenceMalachite, Pitchblende
Helmer Bros. QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Helmer Lime QuarryClay, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Roxborough ParkStone, Crushed/Broken, Magnesite, StonePast Producer
UnknownMica, FeldsparOccurrenceFeldspar, Mica
Unnamed Copper ProspectCopper, Uranium, Nickel, CobaltOccurrenceVein
Waterton Sand & Clay Co.Fire Clay (Refractory), Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand
Kaminski ProspectUraniumOccurrenceEuxenite
Louviers PlantREEProducer
Molycorp Inc Louviers PlantREEProducer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roxborough Park in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2020: 1 flood, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2015FloodRoxborough Park$15,000River flooding forced the closure of twenty campgrounds. State Highway 67 near Deckers and Spruce Wood were restricted to local traffic only.
June 2020HailRoxborough Park-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindRoxborough Park-no account filed

Every storm 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
Roxborough0.3 miles33
Sterling Ranch3.3 miles21
Louviers4.1 miles33
Acequia4.6 miles21
Kellytown4.9 miles26
Pine Nook6.2 miles33
Blakeland6.5 miles21
Sedalia7.1 miles26

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 Roxborough ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q973688The 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 1852848. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.