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The Pinery, Colorado

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Parker census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80134. The Survey maps it on the Ponderosa Park quadrangle. 11,311 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,247 feet above sea level.

The Pinery within Douglas County

Population over time

2 figures

The Pinery grew from 10,517 to 11,311 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
201010,517
202011,311+794 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 30 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

226 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 226 fires within 5 miles of The Pinery between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,939 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined152
Natural19
Equipment and vehicle use18
Smoking12
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Arson/incendiarism6
Other causes5
Recreation and ceremony4
Fireworks2

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 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
8 September 1994Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreDouglas Countynot named
4 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
4 September 1994Naturalunder an acreDouglas Countynot named
3 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
29 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
29 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder 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

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of The Pinery: 4 unknowns, 4 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese, Clay, 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
Unnamed Gold OccurrenceSilver, GoldOccurrencePlacer
ClaypitClayProducer
ClaypitClayProducer
FranktownSand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Leonard MineManganeseOccurrencePsilomelane
Leonard MineManganeseUnknown1952
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

17 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names The Pinery in 17 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 15 hail, 2 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
April 2025HailThe Pinery-no account filed
June 2025HailThe Pinery-no account filed
June 2023HailThe Pinery-no account filed
May 2021HailThe Pinery-no account filed
August 2021HailThe Pinery-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindThe Pinery-no account filed
June 2018HailThe Pinery-no account filed
May 2018HailThe Pinery-no account filed
July 2016HailThe Pinery-no account filed
July 2016HailThe Pinery-no account filed
May 2016HailThe Pinery-no account filed
April 2016HailThe Pinery-no account filed
June 2015HailThe Pinery-no account filed
June 2015HailThe Pinery-no account filed
June 2015HailThe Pinery-no account filed
June 2015HailThe Pinery-no account filed
August 2014Thunderstorm WindThe Pinery-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
Hidden Vilage1.5 miles30
Crestview2.4 miles30
Bayou Hills2.6 miles30
Richlawn Hills2.7 miles28
Hilltop2.8 miles30
Windy Hills3.2 miles30
Burning Tree Ranch4.0 miles30
Cherry Creek Highlands4.2 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.

Wikipedia article on The PineryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q534029The 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 1867091. 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.