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.
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
Crested Butte Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Depotlisted 2001
Town of Crested Buttelisted 1974- Town of Crested Butte (Boundary Increase and Boundary Decrease)listed 2002
Population over time
2 figuresCrested 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,487 | |
| 2020 | 1,639 | +152 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 23 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.
- 1888 USGS Crested Butte quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1889 USGS Crested Butte quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Crested Butte quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1956 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Crested Butte quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1968 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Gunnison quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 2001 USGS Crested Butte quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
29 since 1993Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Crested Butte Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 5 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | WASHINGTON |
| 3 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | CARBON |
| 23 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | CRESTED BUTTE |
| 22 September 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | WHETSTONE MTN. |
| 20 September 2019 | Natural | 2.5 acres | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | WHETSTONE |
| 18 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | RED LADY |
| 30 August 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | GOTHIC |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 32 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crested Butte | Molybdenum, Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc | Producer | ||
| Daisy | Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper | Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Tetrahedrite | |
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gunnison County Mines Rpr | Gold, Zinc, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Jimmy, Keystone, Contact, Eclipse, My Boys, Union | Zinc, Silver, Lead | Occurrence | ||
| Keystone | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Copper | Producer | ||
| Keystone Mine | Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc | Producer | ||
| Keystone Mine | Lead, Zinc, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Micawber | Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc | Producer | Copper, Lead, Silver | |
| Micawber | Lead, Copper, Zinc | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crested Butte | $50 | Strong 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). |
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.
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 Butte | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q592729 | 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 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.









