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Arapahoe Acres

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“Arapahoe Acres is a neighborhood bounded by East Bates, East Dartmouth Avenues, South Marion, South Franklin Streets in Englewood, Colorado. Built from 1949 to 1957 it provides examples of new patterns developed for residential neighborhoods after World War II.”

Wikipedia article Arapahoe Acres, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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

The listing

Fires near this property

855 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 855 fires within 5 miles of Arapahoe Acres between 2010 and 2020, burning about 137 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 24 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/undetermined730
Smoking28
Equipment and vehicle use27
Arson/incendiarism24
Recreation and ceremony13
Debris and open burning9
Natural8
Fireworks8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreDenver Fire DepartmentN/A
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDenver Fire DepartmentN/A
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDenver Fire DepartmentN/A
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersDENVER
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDenver Fire DepartmentN/A
4 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDenver Fire DepartmentN/A
4 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLittleton Fire RescueUNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Arapahoe County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Arapahoe Acres: 11 producers, 9 occurrences, 9 unknowns, 6 past producers. 11 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Allied Chemical CorpSulfurProducer
Robinson Brick & Tile Co., Plant 1ClayProducer
Big Dry Creek PlacersGoldOccurrence1858
Mexican DiggingsGoldPast Producer1858
Central Construction PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Clarke PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Englewood PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Flanagan,Walt & Co.Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Arapahoe County

Storms near this property

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Englewood, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 11 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 1 tornado. 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
June 2018HailEnglewood$276,400,000The property estimate value was the total storm damage summary for the event.
February 2008LightningEnglewood$1,000Lightning struck a home during an electrically charged snowstorm. A gas meter at the home was hit by lightning and burst into flames.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindEnglewood-Intense winds downed a tree.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindEnglewood-Damaging microburst winds blew apart a portion of a roof. The debris from the roof damaged a light pole. In addition, a tree was blown over which knocked out a power line.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindEnglewood-Strong thunderstorm winds downed a 50-ft tree near Hampton and Broadway.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindEnglewood-A wet microburst below a 40-ft tree on to a home. Several power line near Clarkson and Lehigh were also downed.
July 1998LightningEnglewood-Lightning sparked a fire which caused extensive damage. Most of the second floor was destroyed.
July 2019HailEnglewood-no account filed
June 2014HailEnglewood-no account filed
May 2014HailEnglewood-no account filed
June 2011HailEnglewood-no account filed
June 2011HailEnglewood-no account filed
August 2004HailEnglewood-no account filed
April 2003HailEnglewood-no account filed
July 2001HailEnglewood-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindEnglewood-no account filed
July 2001HailEnglewood-no account filed
July 1998Flash FloodEnglewood-no account filed
July 1996HailEnglewood-no account filed
July 1996Tornado (F0)Englewood-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
David W. Brown House0.5 miles1980
Little Estate0.9 miles1998
Englewood Post Office1.0 miles2011
Owen Estate1.1 miles1999
Englewood I.O.O.F. Lodge No. 138 Building1.1 miles2021
Key Savings and Loan Association Building1.1 miles2016

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98001249 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Arapahoe CountyAll 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.