Colorado Springs, Colorado
32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Colorado Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80903. It stands on Monument Creek. The Survey maps it on the Colorado Springs quadrangle. 478,961 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,033 feet above sea level.
On record in Colorado Springs
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 12 of 74 shown
Pikes PeakNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
Alamo Hotellisted 1977
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Passenger Depotlisted 1979
Bemis Halllisted 1997
Judson Moss Bemis Houselisted 1979
Black Forest Schoollisted 1992
Burgess Houselisted 1990
Chadbourn Spanish Gospel Missionlisted 2009
Chambers Ranchlisted 1979
City Hall of Colorado Citylisted 1982
Claremontlisted 1977
Colorado Springs Airportlisted 1996
Population over time
2 figuresColorado Springs grew from 416,427 to 478,961 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 416,427 | |
| 2020 | 478,961 | +62,534 (+15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 32 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.
- 1893 USGS Colorado Springs quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1909 USGS Colorado Springs quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1942 USGS Colorado Springs quadrangle1:125000
- 1948 USGS Colorado Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Colorado Springs quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Colorado Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Colorado Springs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Colorado Springs quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
- 1962 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Colorado Springs quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
2,055 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,055 fires within 5 miles of Colorado Springs between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,477 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 9 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 | 1813 |
| Smoking | 90 |
| Debris and open burning | 45 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 40 |
| Natural | 25 |
| Fireworks | 17 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
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 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 9 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 9 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado Springs Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 9 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado Springs Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 9 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado Springs Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 9 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado Springs Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 8 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 8 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado Springs Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 42 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of Colorado Springs: 28 producers, 13 occurrences, 1 past producer. 28 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Gold, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garden of the Gods | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Producer | ||
| Gold Hill Mesa tailings | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | tailings | |
| Kenmuir | Stone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Thanas & Brown | Limestone, General | Producer | Limestone | |
| Trail | Thorium | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Gold, Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | Fluorite, Gold | |
| Unknown | Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Gemstone | Occurrence | ||
| Manitou Green Stone | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| North Cheyenne District | Gold | Occurrence | 1909 |
Storms near this place
19 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Colorado Springs in 19 storm reports between 1993 and 1996: 16 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1993 | Hail | Colorado Springs | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Hail | Colorado Springs | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Colorado Springs | - | A tornado briefly touched down twice just southeast of the downtown Colorado Springs, first near the intersection of Hancock and Las Animas and then at the Fountain View Apartments, at the intersection of Hutchinson Drive and Fountain Blvd. Several windows were shattered in the apartment complex, and a 30-foot maple tree was toppled, cutting power lines to the apartment complex and damaging a nearby automobile. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Colorado Springs | - | Very heavy rain accompanied the dime-size hail. The slow moving storm dropped up to three inch rainfall amounts at some locations. A few areas measured rainfall rates of over one inch in 20 minutes. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Colorado Springs | - | Lightning triggered a minor housefire in the attic. Thunderstorm winds snapped numerous tree limbs which damaged parked cars. In addition, larger branches blocked rush hour traffic along some roads. |
| May 1994 | Hail | Colorado Springs | - | Severe thunderstorms rumbled across El Paso County, dumping hail over much of the area. A spotter reported golf-ball size hail fell in Calhan (32 miles northeast of Colorado Springs). |
| September 1994 | Hail | Colorado Springs | - | ,,,,,,,,Flash Flooding Thunderstorms containing hail up to 1 inch in diameter and very heavy rains moved over most of the city of Colorado Springs. Rain fell at the rate of four inches per half hour in isolated locations across the city. Hail accumulated to 6 to 9 inches deep near Garden of the Gods west of Colorado Springs. Snow plows were called out at several locations to remove accumulated hail. Four to five feet of water on one city street stranded six people in their cars who needed to be rescued. Water at Templeton Gap Floodway was 10 to 15 feet deep and 100 feet wide. 100 people were evacuated from Campers Village Mobile Home Park, where water rose rapidly to a depth of four feet. |
| May 1994 | Hail | Colorado Springs | - | Severe thunderstorms rumbled across El Paso County, dumping hail over much of the area. A spotter reported golf-ball size hail fell in Calhan (32 miles northeast of Colorado Springs). |
| May 1996 | Hail | Colorado Springs | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Hail | Colorado Springs | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Colorado Springs | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Colorado Springs | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Colorado Springs | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Colorado Springs | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Colorado Springs | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | Colorado Springs | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | Colorado Springs | - | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Colorado Springs | - | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Hail | Colorado Springs | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivywild | 1.8 miles | 32 | |
| Knob Hill | 2.1 miles | 32 | |
| Stratton Meadows | 2.2 miles | 32 | |
| Roswell | 2.7 miles | 32 | |
| Broadmoor | 2.8 miles | 32 | |
| Papeton | 3.1 miles | 32 | |
| Kelker | 3.4 miles | 32 | |
| Stratmoor Hills | 3.8 miles | 32 |
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 Colorado Springs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q49258 | 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 204797. 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.














