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Creede, Colorado

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Creede census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81130. It lies near Windy Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Creede quadrangle. 257 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 8,799 feet above sea level.

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Creede within Mineral County

On record in Creede

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 6 records

Population over time

2 figures

Creede fell from 290 to 257 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
2010290
2020257-33 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 25 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

15 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Creede between 1992 and 2016, burning about 7 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 1 was 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
Natural10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
5 August 1992Naturalunder an acreRio Grande National Forestnot named
4 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMineral County Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
23 August 2003Naturalunder an acreRio Grande National ForestMCKENZIE MOUNTAIN
22 August 2015Naturalunder an acreRio Grande National ForestMIDDLE RAT CREEK
2 August 2010Naturalunder an acreRio Grande National ForestOSO
8 July 1994Naturalunder an acreRio Grande National Forestnot named
26 July 2014Naturalunder an acreRio Grande National ForestRAT CREEK
17 July 1994Naturalunder an acreRio Grande National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mineral County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 142 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 142 workings within 5 miles of Creede: 104 past producers, 28 occurrences, 5 producers, 2 prospects. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper. 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
Amethyst MineSilver, Lead, Gold, Zinc, Copper, Cadmium, Arsenic, AntimonyPast Producer1891, 1976
Bachelor MineLead, Silver, Zinc, Gold, Copper, Antimony, ManganesePast Producer1884
Berkshire ShaftSilver, Lead, Copper, ZincPast Producer
Bethel ClaimSilver, Gold, LeadOccurrenceGalena
Captive IncaSilver, Gold, LeadPast Producer
Colewood TunnelZinc, Lead, CopperOccurrenceAnglesite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Commodore MineZinc, Silver, Lead, Copper, Gold, Antimony, ManganesePast Producer1891
ConejosGold, Copper, Lead, SilverPast Producer
Cowboy Johnson AditSilver, Lead, Copper, ZincOccurrence1979, 1980
Creede FormationSilver, Manganese, Barium-BariteProducer1973

Every working recorded in Mineral County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Creede in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 1 tornado, 1 lightning, 1 debris flow, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 death. 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 2008LightningCreede1 killedno account filed
October 1997Tornado (F2)Creede$10,000no account filed
August 2024Heavy RainCreede-Public reported 1.00 inch of total rainfall. Rain fell yesterday afternoon through last night.
August 2022Debris FlowCreede-Mud slide over highway 149 blocking northbound lane.

Every storm recorded in Mineral 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
North Creede1.0 miles25
Sunnyside1.8 miles25
Weaver (historical)2.4 miles25
Spar City10.0 miles24
Lucky Seven Summer Homes20.8 miles21

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 CreedeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2276193The 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 190444. 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.