Downieville, Colorado
27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Georgetown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80436. It stands on Silver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Central City quadrangle. It stands 8,031 feet above sea level.
On record in Downieville
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Dumont Schoollisted 1996 · 0.6 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 27 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.
- 1905 USGS Central City quadrangle1:62500
- 1910 USGS Central City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1912 USGS Central City quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1942 USGS Central City quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1944 USGS Central City quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1957 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Central City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Denver West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
43 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Downieville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. 11 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | UTE CREEK |
| 12 September 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | WHITE HORSE |
| 9 August 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | BALD MOUNTAIN |
| 8 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | MAD CREEK |
| 7 August 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | DEVIL |
| 29 August 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | CONQUERER |
| 25 August 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | ST MARY'S |
| 2 August 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | LAWSON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 939 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 939 workings within 5 miles of Downieville: 793 past producers, 65 occurrences, 56 producers, 19 unknowns. 58 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 394357 | Silver, Uranium, Vanadium | Past Producer | ||
| Alma-Lincoln Mine | Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Uranium | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Enargite, Galena, Polybasite, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Tennantite, Gold, Cerussite, Chalcocite, Covellite | |
| Alpha | Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Angeline | Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver | Producer | Vein | |
| Anglo Saxon Mine | Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Anglo-Saxon Mine | Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Atlantic & Brighton | Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | Underground | |
| Bachus Group | Gold, Lead | Past Producer | Underground | |
| Bellevue-Rochester | Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead, Uranium, Zinc | Past Producer | Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Uraninite | |
| Black Bear Mine | Lead, Silver, Gold | Occurrence |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawson | 0.7 miles | 29 | |
| Dumont | 0.8 miles | 27 | |
| Freeland | 1.8 miles | 28 | |
| Lamartine | 2.6 miles | 28 | |
| Empire | 3.7 miles | 29 | |
| Alice | 3.9 miles | 29 | |
| Saint Marys | 3.9 miles | 29 | |
| Yankee (historical) | 4.2 miles | 27 |
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 Downieville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5303187 | 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 181423. 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.










