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Vista Pointe, 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 80112. It lies near Badger Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Parker quadrangle.

Vista Pointe within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

522 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 522 fires within 5 miles of Vista Pointe between 1994 and 2020, burning about 184 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined380
Smoking44
Equipment and vehicle use30
Arson/incendiarism16
Natural16
Fireworks9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Debris and open burning8
Recreation and ceremony7
Other causes4

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
7 September 2015Naturalunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
5 September 1995Naturalunder an acreDouglas Countynot named
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
4 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
4 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
4 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAurora Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
3 September 2017Missing 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 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Vista Pointe: 6 occurrences, 4 producers, 3 past producers, 3 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, Feldspar. 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
Happy Canyon Creek Gold OccurrenceGold, SilverOccurrencePlacer
MadisClayPast Producer
Newlin GulchFeldsparPast Producer
Cherry Creek PlacersGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Newlin Gulch Gold OccurrenceGoldOccurrencePlacer
Newlin Gulch PlacerGoldOccurrence1895
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

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
Grand View Estates0.7 miles24
Meridian Village0.7 miles24
Sierra Ridge1.0 miles24
Meridian1.5 miles24
Lone Tree1.6 miles24
Stonegate1.7 miles24
Stepping Stone1.8 miles24
Inverness2.2 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.

Wikidata item Q122596356The 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 2413679. 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.