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Blue River, Colorado

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Breckenridge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80424. It stands on Pennsylvania Creek. The Survey maps it on the Breckenridge quadrangle. 877 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10,036 feet above sea level.

Blue River within Summit County

Population over time

2 figures

Blue River grew from 849 to 877 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
2010849
2020877+28 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 31 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

126 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Blue River between 1994 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined96
Recreation and ceremony15
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRed White & Blue Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersBRECKENRIDGE
30 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreRed White & Blue Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
29 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRed White & Blue Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
21 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
2 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRed White & Blue Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersBRECKENRIDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 127 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 127 workings within 5 miles of Blue River: 52 past producers, 30 occurrences, 27 producers, 18 unknowns. 27 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Copper. 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
Bemrose MineGold, Iron, SilverProducerPyrite, Pyrrhotite
Briar Rose MineGold, Zinc, Lead, Copper, SilverPast ProducerGalena, Pyrite
Bullion KingLead, Silver, ZincProducer
Cally MineGold, Copper, Silver, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Carbonate MineZinc, Silver, LeadProducerAnglesite, Galena
Commodore PlacerGold, Silver, Zinc, Copper, LeadPast Producer
DunkinGold, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer1895
Dunkin, Juniata, Puzzle, Ouray, Gold Dust, WashingtonZinc, Gold, Silver, LeadProducer
FredoniaSilver, Zinc, LeadProducer
Golden Crest MineGold, BerylliumOccurrenceBeryl

Every working recorded in Summit 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
Tordal Estates3.1 miles31
Dyersville (historical)3.2 miles23
Breckenridge3.6 miles31
Preston (historical)4.7 miles31
Peak Seven West5.0 miles31
Lincoln5.0 miles23
Parkville (historical)6.9 miles23
Wheeler Junction7.4 miles19

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 Blue RiverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2264851The 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 179660. 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.