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Allenspark, Colorado

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Upper St. Vrain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80510. It stands on Willow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Allenspark quadrangle. 568 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 8,504 feet above sea level.

Allenspark within Boulder County

On record in Allenspark

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Allenspark grew from 528 to 568 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
2010528
2020568+40 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 28 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

161 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Allenspark between 1992 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined93
Recreation and ceremony33
Natural22
Smoking3
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandBEAVER
7 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-Boulder Districtnot named
6 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandTAYLOR MOUNTAIN
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
5 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandTIMBERLINE FALLS
5 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandBUNCE SCHOOL
30 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAllenspark Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
26 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grasslandnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boulder County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Allenspark: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Uranium, Beryllium, Zinc, Silver. 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
BradshawUraniumPast Producer
Old TownGold, Zinc, SilverPast Producer
Twin SisterBerylliumPast Producer
UnknownGoldOccurrenceGold
UnknownGoldOccurrenceGold

Every working recorded in Boulder County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Allenspark in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 hail. 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
July 1996HailAllenspark-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boulder 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
Ferncliff0.7 miles28
Arrowood0.9 miles28
Pine Valley2.3 miles27
Meeker Park2.7 miles28
Raymond4.2 miles27
Peaceful Valley4.6 miles27
Riverside4.9 miles27
Hidden Lake6.3 miles28

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 AllensparkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2711112The 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 178219. 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.