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Sheridan, Colorado

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Southwest Arapahoe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80110. It stands on Big Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Logan quadrangle. 6,105 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,325 feet above sea level.

Sheridan within Arapahoe County

Population over time

2 figures

Sheridan grew from 5,664 to 6,105 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
20105,664
20206,105+441 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

926 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 926 fires within 5 miles of Sheridan between 2008 and 2020, burning about 5,337 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 30 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/undetermined768
Smoking38
Arson/incendiarism30
Equipment and vehicle use27
Natural17
Recreation and ceremony15
Fireworks12
Debris and open burning9
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Other causes1

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
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWest Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
9 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWest Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
7 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreDenver Fire DepartmentN/A
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDenver Fire DepartmentN/A
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWest Metro Fire RescueN/A
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDenver Fire DepartmentN/A
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
5 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Arapahoe County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Sheridan: 14 producers, 8 occurrences, 7 unknowns, 4 past producers. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Sulfur, Gold. 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
Allied Chemical CorpSulfurProducer
Mexican DiggingsGoldPast Producer1858
Lakewood PlantClayProducer
Robinson Brick & Tile Co., Plant 1ClayProducer
Central Construction PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Clarke PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Englewood PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Flanagan,Walt & Co.Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Arapahoe County

Storms near this place

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sheridan in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2012: 6 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 2012HailSheridan-no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindSheridan-no account filed
July 2011HailSheridan-no account filed
August 2009HailSheridan-no account filed
June 2005HailSheridan-no account filed
June 2001HailSheridan-no account filed
July 2001HailSheridan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Arapahoe 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
Bow Mar1.8 miles20
Hillside Manor2.0 miles21
Englewood2.0 miles27
Littleton2.4 miles21
Columbine Lakes3.1 miles21
Columbine Valley3.2 miles21
Coventry3.2 miles21
Cherry Hills Village3.5 miles27

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 SheridanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2276170The 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 204714. 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.