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Crested Butte, Colorado

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Crested Butte census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81224. It stands on Coal Creek. The Survey maps it on the Crested Butte quadrangle. 1,639 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 8,907 feet above sea level.

Crested Butte within Gunnison County

On record in Crested Butte

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Crested Butte grew from 1,487 to 1,639 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
20101,487
20201,639+152 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

29 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Crested Butte between 1993 and 2020, burning about 37 acres in total. 9 started naturally. None 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
Natural9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
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
8 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCrested Butte Fire Protection DistrictN/A
5 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National ForestsWASHINGTON
3 September 2013Naturalunder an acreGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National ForestsCARBON
23 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersCRESTED BUTTE
22 September 2012Naturalunder an acreGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National ForestsWHETSTONE MTN.
20 September 2019Natural2.5 acresGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National ForestsWHETSTONE
18 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National ForestsRED LADY
30 August 2006Naturalunder an acreGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National ForestsGOTHIC

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gunnison County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Crested Butte: 9 occurrences, 9 past producers, 7 producers, 7 unknowns. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Iron, Silver, Zinc. 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
Crested ButteMolybdenum, Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, ZincProducer
DaisySilver, Lead, Zinc, CopperProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Tetrahedrite
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gunnison County Mines RprGold, Zinc, SilverPast Producer
Jimmy, Keystone, Contact, Eclipse, My Boys, UnionZinc, Silver, LeadOccurrence
KeystoneLead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, CopperProducer
Keystone MineSilver, Lead, Copper, ZincProducer
Keystone MineLead, Zinc, CopperPast Producer
MicawberSilver, Copper, Lead, ZincProducerCopper, Lead, Silver
MicawberLead, Copper, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Gunnison County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crested Butte in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 1994Thunderstorm WindCrested Butte$50Strong thunderstorm winds destroyed a garage in Eckert (38 miles southeast of Grand Junction), and blew shingles off roofs and knocked down trees in Crested Butte (24 miles south southwest of Aspen).

Every storm recorded in Gunnison 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
Mount Crested Butte2.9 miles26
Ruby5.7 miles26
Irwin5.8 miles26
Gothic6.2 miles26
Elkton6.9 miles27
Pittsburg6.9 miles27
Floresta7.4 miles26
Baldwin8.0 miles26

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 Crested ButteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q592729The 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 188848. 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.