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Brookside, Colorado

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Cañon City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81212. It lies near Fawn Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Canon City quadrangle. 236 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,344 feet above sea level.

Brookside within Fremont County

Population over time

2 figures

Brookside grew from 233 to 236 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
2010233
2020236+3 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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

779 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 779 fires within 5 miles of Brookside between 1992 and 2020, burning about 285 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined673
Recreation and ceremony27
Natural23
Debris and open burning17
Smoking16
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Fireworks4
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
9 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCanon City Area Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
7 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCanon City Area Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCanon City Area Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCanon City Area Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCanon City Area Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 68 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 68 workings within 5 miles of Brookside: 31 producers, 28 past producers, 7 occurrences, 1 plant. 32 still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Canon City DepositIronOccurrenceLimonite, Siderite
ColonnaMarble, DimensionProducerMetamorphic
Cotter Mill (facility)Uranium, MolybdenumPast Producer
Horse Shoe & El PlomaLead, Copper, Gold, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Oak CreekFeldspar, MicaProducer
QuarrySandstone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSandstone
Unidentified OccurrenceFeldspar, Mica, Quartz, UraniumPast ProducerMicrocline, Muscovite
UnknownDolomiteProducerDolomite
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence
Alnea, Horney Ganister, Burnito, Mccourt, Flint, Climax, DarleySilicaProducer

Every working recorded in Fremont 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
Lincoln Park1.8 miles24
Prospect Heights2.5 miles24
East Canon2.8 miles24
Chandler (historical)2.9 miles23
Williamsburg3.1 miles24
Cañon City3.2 miles24
Rockvale3.5 miles23
Florence4.3 miles24

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 BrooksideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2275116The 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 192018. 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.