BlockFrom the record
One of 26 National Register listings published here for Arapahoe County · listed in 2012 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Arapaho Hills
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
The listing
- Address. Bounded by Arrowhead, W. Berry, & S. Manitou Rds., S. Lowell Blvd., Littleton, 80123
- When was it listed? August 2012
- Category. district
- Also known as. Residential Subdivisions of Metropolitan Denver, 1940-1965 MPS
- Census division. Southwest Arapahoe
- National Register reference number. 12000550 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
791 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 791 fires within 5 miles of Arapaho Hills between 1996 and 2020, burning about 5,325 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 28 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/undetermined | 642 |
| Smoking | 42 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 28 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 25 |
| Natural | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Fireworks | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | West Metro Fire Rescue | UNKNOWN |
| 8 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 7 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Denver Fire Department | N/A |
| 6 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | West Metro Fire Rescue | N/A |
| 5 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Denver Fire Department | N/A |
| 5 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | West Metro Fire Rescue | UNKNOWN |
| 4 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Denver Fire Department | N/A |
| 4 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Littleton Fire Rescue | UNKNOWN |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 40 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 40 workings within 5 miles of Arapaho Hills: 16 occurrences, 12 producers, 11 unknowns, 1 past producer. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Dry Creek Placers | Gold | Occurrence | 1858 | |
| Unknown | Clay | Producer | ||
| Central Construction Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Clarke Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Englewood Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Flanagan,Walt & Co.Inc. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this property
31 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Littleton, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 22 hail, 5 lightning, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2018 | Flash Flood | Littleton | 1 killed, $500,000 | Thunderstorms produced very heavy rainfall, 1 to 2 inches in less than 30 minutes. At 4600 South Acoma, the floodwaters quickly inundated a basement apartment and trapped a 32-year-old woman inside. She was rescued, but died several hours later. |Floodwaters stalled several vehicles and forced the closure of several intersections including: East Iliff Ave. and South Chambers Road, Santa Fe Drive and West Oxford Ave., South Buckley Road and East Bates Ave., East 6th Ave. and South Picadilly Road, East Hampden Ave and South Uruvan Way. Flooding created a large sinkhole in Sheridan. A small SUV was fell into the hole. The driver was not injured. She escaped her vehicle before it was swallowed by the sinkhole. |
| August 2010 | Lightning | Littleton | 1 hurt | A 14-year-old teenager was struck by lightning while washing her family's car. The bolt struck the street nearby; it then traveled up a stream of water flowing from the vehicle and hit the teenager. She received minor injuries. |
| July 2001 | Hail | Littleton | $606,000 | The city of Littleton suffered $612,000 in damage to vehicles, roofs, buildings, landscaping and computers. Almost every vehicle owned by visitors and employees in the Littleton Center parking lot sustained damage. |
| June 1996 | Lightning | Littleton | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Littleton | - | An intense thunderstorm wind snapped tree branches, up to two inches in diameter. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Littleton | - | Large tree branches, greater than two inches in diameter, were broken. |
| June 2003 | Lightning | Littleton | - | Lightning struck a feeder line, knocking out electricity to approximately 3000 residents. |
| July 1999 | Lightning | Littleton | - | Lightning struck two residences in Littleton, but caused only minor damage. |
| June 1997 | Lightning | Littleton | - | Lightning struck a home in Littleton. The house caught fire but a damage estimate was not available. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Littleton | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Hail | Littleton | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Hail | Littleton | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Littleton | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Littleton | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Littleton | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Littleton | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Hail | Littleton | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Littleton | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Littleton | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Littleton | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Littleton | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Littleton | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Littleton | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Littleton | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Flood | Littleton | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Littleton | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Littleton | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Littleton | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Littleton | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Littleton | - | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | Littleton | - | no account filed |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Littleton Main Street | 1.1 miles | 1998 |
 | Littleton Town Hall | 1.1 miles | 1980 |
 | Littleton Post Office | 1.1 miles | 2019 |
 | Geneva Home | 1.2 miles | 1999 |
 | Knight-Wood House | 1.5 miles | 2004 |
 | Key Savings and Loan Association Building | 3.5 miles | 2016 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 12000550 in Record Group 79. |
| Arapahoe County | All 26 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- 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.