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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.

Coal Creek within Fremont County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

226 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined194
Natural11
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1
Fireworks1

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
4 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
30 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
26 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
2 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
2 September 2013Naturalunder an acreWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
19 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersCANON CITY
18 September 2016Missing 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 53 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Canon City DepositIronOccurrenceLimonite, Siderite
Last HopeFeldspar, Mica, Stone, Crushed/Broken, QuartzProducerMica, Microcline, Quartz
Oak CreekFeldspar, MicaProducer
White King, State RockSilicaProducer
Florence Perlite MillPerliteProducer
PersolitePerliteProducer
Unidentified Placer OccurrenceGoldOccurrencePlacer
Unidentified Placer OccurrenceGoldOccurrencePlacer
Chandler CreekStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
FremontStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2012Flash FloodCoal Creek$30,000no account filed
July 2017Flash FloodCoal 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 2014Tornado (EF0)Coal Creek-A short-lived tornado caused no known damage.
July 2009HailCoal Creek-no account filed

Every storm 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
Rockvale1.0 miles23
Williamsburg1.4 miles24
Florence2.6 miles24
Chandler (historical)2.9 miles23
Brookside4.4 miles24
Lincoln Park6.0 miles24
Prospect Heights6.5 miles24
Portland6.9 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 Coal CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981313The 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.