Berthoud Falls, Colorado

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Georgetown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80438. It stands on Woods Creek. The Survey maps it on the Berthoud Pass quadrangle.

Berthoud Falls within Clear Creek County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1924 USGS Fraser quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1926 USGS Fraser quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1953 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1957 USGS Berthoud Pass quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
1957 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Fraser quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1958 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Denver West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

17 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Berthoud Falls between 1992 and 2017, burning about 3 acres in total. 5 started naturally. None 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
Recreation and ceremony	7
Natural	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
23 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	CLEAR CREEK
23 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	THREE CHIEFS
10 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	HELLS HALF ACRE
8 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	FIRST CREEK
20 August 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	CURRENT CREEK
10 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	not named
30 July 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	URAD
21 July 1993	Natural	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clear Creek County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Berthoud Falls: 18 occurrences, 13 past producers, 4 producers, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Molybdenum, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bard Creek Mine	Zinc, Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper	Occurrence	Lead, Silver
Doctor Mine	Gold, Copper, Silver	Producer	Vein
Henderson Mine	Molybdenum, Tin, Tungsten, Lead, Iron, Zinc	Producer	1965, 1976
Jean Mine	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
La Plata Williams Fork	Lead, Gold, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Mica Prospect	Feldspar	Producer
Montezuma prospect (Montezuma High Lode)	Gold, Lead, Bismuth, Silver	Prospect
Red Mountain tungsten veins	Tungsten	Occurrence	Huebnerite
Scotia	Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper	Occurrence	Vein
Unknown	Silver, Molybdenum	Occurrence	Molybdenite, Silver

Every working recorded in Clear Creek 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Graymont	5.3 miles	31
Bakerville	5.5 miles	31
Empire	6.6 miles	29
Silver Plume	6.8 miles	29
Georgetown	7.4 miles	29
Silverdale (historical)	8.1 miles	29
Saint Marys	9.1 miles	29
Alice	9.4 miles	29

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 197798. 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.