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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.

Downieville within Clear Creek County

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 27 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

43 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony12
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
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
27 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandUTE CREEK
12 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandWHITE HORSE
9 August 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandBALD MOUNTAIN
8 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandMAD CREEK
7 August 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandDEVIL
29 August 2015Naturalunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandCONQUERER
25 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandST MARY'S
2 August 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandLAWSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clear Creek County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 939 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
394357Silver, Uranium, VanadiumPast Producer
Alma-Lincoln MineGold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, UraniumPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Enargite, Galena, Polybasite, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Tennantite, Gold, Cerussite, Chalcocite, Covellite
AlphaGold, Silver, Lead, Copper, ZincPast Producer
AngelineGold, Lead, Zinc, Copper, SilverProducerVein
Anglo Saxon MineSilver, Gold, Copper, LeadOccurrenceVein
Anglo-Saxon MineGold, Silver, Lead, CopperPast ProducerVein
Atlantic & BrightonFluorine-FluoritePast ProducerUnderground
Bachus GroupGold, LeadPast ProducerUnderground
Bellevue-RochesterGold, Copper, Silver, Lead, Uranium, ZincPast ProducerGalena, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Uraninite
Black Bear MineLead, Silver, GoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Clear Creek 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
Lawson0.7 miles29
Dumont0.8 miles27
Freeland1.8 miles28
Lamartine2.6 miles28
Empire3.7 miles29
Alice3.9 miles29
Saint Marys3.9 miles29
Yankee (historical)4.2 miles27

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 DownievilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5303187The 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.