Coal Creek, Colorado
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Florence census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81221. It stands on South Oak Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rockvale quadrangle. 364 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,427 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 23 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1889 USGS Canon City quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1892 USGS Canon City quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1892 USGS Canyon City quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Rockvale quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Canon City quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Rockvale quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
226 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 226 fires within 5 miles of Coal Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 11 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/undetermined | 194 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Williamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District) | UNKNOWN |
| 4 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Williamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District) | UNKNOWN |
| 30 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Williamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District) | UNKNOWN |
| 26 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Williamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District) | UNKNOWN |
| 2 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Williamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District) | UNKNOWN |
| 2 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Williamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District) | UNKNOWN |
| 19 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | CANON CITY |
| 18 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Williamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District) | UNKNOWN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 53 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 53 workings within 5 miles of Coal Creek: 28 producers, 20 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 plant. 29 still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canon City Deposit | Iron | Occurrence | Limonite, Siderite | |
| Last Hope | Feldspar, Mica, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Quartz | Producer | Mica, Microcline, Quartz | |
| Oak Creek | Feldspar, Mica | Producer | ||
| White King, State Rock | Silica | Producer | ||
| Florence Perlite Mill | Perlite | Producer | ||
| Persolite | Perlite | Producer | ||
| Unidentified Placer Occurrence | Gold | Occurrence | Placer | |
| Unidentified Placer Occurrence | Gold | Occurrence | Placer | |
| Chandler Creek | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Fremont | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coal Creek in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2017: 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2012 | Flash Flood | Coal Creek | $30,000 | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Flash Flood | Coal Creek | - | Strong storms produced brief flash flooding in and around Penrose and Florence. In addition, significant flood waters from the Junkins burn scar swiftly moved down Hardscrabble Creek down from Wetmore causing out of channel flooding to agricultural areas. No major damage was reported. |
| August 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Coal Creek | - | A short-lived tornado caused no known damage. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Coal Creek | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rockvale | 1.0 miles | 23 | |
| Williamsburg | 1.4 miles | 24 | |
| Florence | 2.6 miles | 24 | |
| Chandler (historical) | 2.9 miles | 23 | |
| Brookside | 4.4 miles | 24 | |
| Lincoln Park | 6.0 miles | 24 | |
| Prospect Heights | 6.5 miles | 24 | |
| Portland | 6.9 miles | 24 |
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 Coal Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981313 | The 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 192054. 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.











