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Spring Creek Meadows, Colorado

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the South Aurora census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80013. The Survey maps it on the Coal Creek quadrangle.

Spring Creek Meadows within Arapahoe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

677 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 677 fires within 5 miles of Spring Creek Meadows between 1994 and 2020, burning about 388 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 29 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/undetermined533
Smoking38
Arson/incendiarism29
Equipment and vehicle use27
Fireworks23
Natural11
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony4

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCunningham Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAurora Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAurora Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAurora Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
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
7 September 2015Naturalunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Arapahoe County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Spring Creek Meadows: 7 unknowns, 3 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Cherry Creek PlacersGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Cherry Creek PlacersGoldUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working 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
East Quincy Highlands0.9 miles23
Highpoint1.0 miles26
Summer Lake1.1 miles26
Seven Hills1.5 miles26
Summer Valley1.8 miles26
Park View1.9 miles24
Parkborough2.0 miles24
Dove Hill2.3 miles24

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 Q122558316The 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 2354584. 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.