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Divide, Colorado

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Divide census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80814. It lies near Redner Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Divide quadrangle. 143 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 9,165 feet above sea level.

Divide within Teller County

Population over time

2 figures

Divide grew from 127 to 143 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
2010127
2020143+16 (+13%)

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

84 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Divide between 1992 and 2020, burning about 37 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined47
Natural11
Recreation and ceremony9
Arson/incendiarism8
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1

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
7 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTeller Countynot named
3 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDivide Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
20 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
18 September 2010Smokingunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
14 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
14 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
9 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Teller County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Divide: 4 past producers, 4 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar, Gold, Quartz, Thorium, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, Beryllium, REE, Beryllium, Quartz. 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
Black Cloud MineFeldspar, Quartz, Thorium, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, Beryllium, REEProducerApatite, Beryl, Columbite, Feldspar, Fluorite, Microlite, Pyrochlore, Quartz, Tantalite
Black Cloud QuarryFeldspar, Beryllium, QuartzPast Producer
Emma L MineNickel, Titanium, MetalProducer
Emma L. MineNickel, TitaniumPast Producer
Round Top, Peacock, Rp LodesSilver, Copper, Gold, RadiumOccurrencePitchblende
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSedimentary
UnknownPeatOccurrencePeat
Unnamed MineFluorine-Fluorite, ZirconiumProducerFluorite
Unnamed MineFluorine-Fluorite, ZirconiumPast Producer
Maranville, Mumper PlacersGoldOccurrencePlacer

Every working recorded in Teller County

Storms near this place

31 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Divide in 31 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 26 hail, 3 tornado, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 2025Tornado (EF1)Divide-Confirmed tornado northeast of Divide, in Teller County. Rating was EF-1 with winds estimated at 106 mph.
July 2025Tornado (EF1)Divide-A damage assessment was performed for an EF1 tornado that formed at 1:55PM MDT on July 30th, 2025 6 miles WNW of Woodland Park, Colorado. The path length was .8 miles oriented from northwest to southwest and had a maximum width of 75 yards. There was extensive tree damage with the primary damage indicator being widespread uprooted softwood trees and an occasional snapped softwood tree.
August 2022Heavy RainDivide-Measured 2.65 inches of rain from earlier thunderstorms.
July 2019HailDivide-Quarter size hail reported by Pikes Peak ARES.
July 2019HailDivide-Pikes Peak ARES operator reported one-inch hail with storm near Divide.
June 2002Flash FloodDivide-Rainfall rates of around 1 inch an hour caused flooding across portions of the Hayman Burn Area in Teller county. Over 1000 firefighters were told to head for safe places.
July 2023HailDivide-no account filed
August 2018HailDivide-no account filed
August 2018HailDivide-no account filed
June 2017HailDivide-no account filed
June 2016HailDivide-no account filed
June 2015HailDivide-no account filed
June 2015HailDivide-no account filed
May 2014HailDivide-no account filed
July 2011HailDivide-no account filed
July 2011HailDivide-no account filed
June 2010HailDivide-no account filed
July 2010HailDivide-no account filed
July 2010HailDivide-no account filed
June 2009HailDivide-no account filed
May 2009HailDivide-no account filed
July 2009HailDivide-no account filed
June 2007HailDivide-no account filed
July 2007HailDivide-no account filed
July 2006HailDivide-no account filed
August 2005HailDivide-no account filed
June 2001HailDivide-no account filed
July 1996HailDivide-no account filed
July 1996Tornado (F1)Divide-no account filed
July 1996HailDivide-no account filed
August 1993HailDivide-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Teller 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
Midland5.8 miles28
Woodland Park6.4 miles25
Crystola7.0 miles25
Florissant7.0 miles30
Green Mountain Falls7.5 miles25
Gillett (historical)11.2 miles28
Stratton13.4 miles26
Cripple Creek13.5 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 DivideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3475919The 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 191170. 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.