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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.

Colorado Springs within El Paso County

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

Every listing in El Paso County

Population over time

2 figures

Colorado 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.

YearPeople Change
2010416,427
2020478,961+62,534 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 32 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

2,055 since 1993

Regional 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/undetermined1813
Smoking90
Debris and open burning45
Equipment and vehicle use40
Natural25
Fireworks17
Recreation and ceremony14
Arson/incendiarism9
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
9 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
9 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in El Paso County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 42 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Garden of the GodsGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Gold Hill Mesa tailingsGold, SilverPast Producertailings
KenmuirStone, DimensionProducer
Thanas & BrownLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
TrailThoriumProducer
UnknownGold, Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrenceFluorite, Gold
UnknownClay, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
UnknownGemstoneOccurrence
Manitou Green StoneStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrenceSedimentary
North Cheyenne DistrictGoldOccurrence1909

Every working recorded in El Paso County

Storms near this place

19 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1993HailColorado Springs$50,000no account filed
August 1993HailColorado Springs$5,000no account filed
August 1995Tornado (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 1995HailColorado 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 1995Thunderstorm WindColorado 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 1994HailColorado 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 1994HailColorado 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 1994HailColorado 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 1996HailColorado Springs-no account filed
August 1995HailColorado Springs-no account filed
July 1995HailColorado Springs-no account filed
July 1995HailColorado Springs-no account filed
May 1995HailColorado Springs-no account filed
May 1995HailColorado Springs-no account filed
June 1994HailColorado Springs-no account filed
July 1994HailColorado Springs-no account filed
July 1994HailColorado Springs-no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindColorado Springs-no account filed
August 1993HailColorado Springs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in El Paso 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
Ivywild1.8 miles32
Knob Hill2.1 miles32
Stratton Meadows2.2 miles32
Roswell2.7 miles32
Broadmoor2.8 miles32
Papeton3.1 miles32
Kelker3.4 miles32
Stratmoor Hills3.8 miles32

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 SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q49258The 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.