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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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
Sevenmile Bridgelisted 1985
Wagon Wheel Gap Railroad Stationlisted 1976- Bachelor-Commodore Mine Complexlisted 2021
- Wagon Wheel Gap Fluorspar Mine and Milllisted 2019
- Wagon Wheel Gap Hot Springs Resortlisted 2019
- Zang's Hotel and Annexlisted 2022
Population over time
2 figuresCreede 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 290 | |
| 2020 | 257 | -33 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 25 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.
- 1914 USGS Creede quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1916 USGS Creede quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1945 USGS Durango quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Durango quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Durango quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Creede quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1961 USGS Durango quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Durango quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Durango quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Del Norte quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Creede quadrangle1:24000
- 2001 USGS Creede quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
15 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Rio Grande National Forest | not named |
| 4 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Mineral County Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 23 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Rio Grande National Forest | MCKENZIE MOUNTAIN |
| 22 August 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Rio Grande National Forest | MIDDLE RAT CREEK |
| 2 August 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Rio Grande National Forest | OSO |
| 8 July 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Rio Grande National Forest | not named |
| 26 July 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Rio Grande National Forest | RAT CREEK |
| 17 July 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Rio Grande National Forest | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 142 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amethyst Mine | Silver, Lead, Gold, Zinc, Copper, Cadmium, Arsenic, Antimony | Past Producer | 1891, 1976 | |
| Bachelor Mine | Lead, Silver, Zinc, Gold, Copper, Antimony, Manganese | Past Producer | 1884 | |
| Berkshire Shaft | Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Bethel Claim | Silver, Gold, Lead | Occurrence | Galena | |
| Captive Inca | Silver, Gold, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Colewood Tunnel | Zinc, Lead, Copper | Occurrence | Anglesite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite | |
| Commodore Mine | Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper, Gold, Antimony, Manganese | Past Producer | 1891 | |
| Conejos | Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Cowboy Johnson Adit | Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc | Occurrence | 1979, 1980 | |
| Creede Formation | Silver, Manganese, Barium-Barite | Producer | 1973 |
Storms near this place
4 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2008 | Lightning | Creede | 1 killed | no account filed |
| October 1997 | Tornado (F2) | Creede | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2024 | Heavy Rain | Creede | - | Public reported 1.00 inch of total rainfall. Rain fell yesterday afternoon through last night. |
| August 2022 | Debris Flow | Creede | - | Mud slide over highway 149 blocking northbound lane. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Creede | 1.0 miles | 25 | |
| Sunnyside | 1.8 miles | 25 | |
| Weaver (historical) | 2.4 miles | 25 | |
| Spar City | 10.0 miles | 24 | |
| Lucky Seven Summer Homes | 20.8 miles | 21 |
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 Creede | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2276193 | 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 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.











