Little Estate

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Little Estate is a mansion home located at 1 Littleridge Ln. in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado. It was built in 1941 in Tudor Revival style.”
Wikipedia article Little Estate, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Arapahoe County · listed in 1998 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1 Littleridge Ln., Cherry Hills Village, 80113
When was it listed? May 1998
Category. building
Census division. Southwest Arapahoe
National Register reference number. 98000610 - 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

843 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 843 fires within 5 miles of Little Estate between 2010 and 2020, burning about 142 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 22 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	721
Smoking	28
Equipment and vehicle use	26
Arson/incendiarism	22
Recreation and ceremony	14
Natural	10
Fireworks	8
Debris and open burning	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
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
7 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Denver Fire Department	N/A
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Denver Fire Department	N/A
5 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Denver Fire Department	N/A
5 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	N/A
5 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	DENVER
4 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Denver Fire Department	N/A
4 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Denver Fire Department	N/A
4 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Littleton Fire Rescue	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Arapahoe County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Little Estate: 12 producers, 10 occurrences, 10 unknowns, 5 past producers. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Sulfur, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Allied Chemical Corp	Sulfur	Producer
Robinson Brick & Tile Co., Plant 1	Clay	Producer
Big Dry Creek Placers	Gold	Occurrence	1858
Big Dry Creek Placers	Gold	Unknown
Little Dry Creek Placers	Gold	Occurrence	Placer
Mexican Diggings	Gold	Past Producer	1858
Central Construction Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cherry Creek Sand Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Clarke Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Englewood Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Arapahoe County

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 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Owen Estate	0.2 miles	1999
Maitland Estate	0.5 miles	1998
Arapahoe Acres	0.9 miles	1998
David W. Brown House	0.9 miles	1980
Key Savings and Loan Association Building	1.0 miles	2016
Englewood I.O.O.F. Lodge No. 138 Building	1.0 miles	2021

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000610 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.