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Florissant, Colorado

30 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 80816. It stands on Grape Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake George quadrangle. 128 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 8,200 feet above sea level.

Florissant within Teller County

On record in Florissant

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

Florissant grew from 104 to 128 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
2010104
2020128+24 (+23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 30 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

226 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 226 fires within 5 miles of Florissant between 1993 and 2020, burning about 246 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined146
Natural40
Recreation and ceremony13
Arson/incendiarism9
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFour Mile Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
3 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
20 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorissant Fire Protection DistrictN/A
20 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
15 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
1 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named

Every fire recorded in Teller County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Florissant: 6 past producers, 4 producers, 3 occurrences, 2 prospects. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar, Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite, 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
Air LineGoldPast ProducerUnderground
Black Cloud MineFeldspar, Quartz, Thorium, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, Beryllium, REEProducerApatite, Beryl, Columbite, Feldspar, Fluorite, Microlite, Pyrochlore, Quartz, Tantalite
Black Cloud QuarryFeldspar, Beryllium, QuartzPast Producer
Blue Mountain MineCopper, ZincOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Sphalerite
Crystal Peak Topaz ProspectsGemstone, FeldsparProspect
Crystal Peak Topaz ProspectsGemstone, Semiprecious Gemstone, TinProspect1865
Florissant AreaPumiceProducer
Teller PegmatiteFeldspar, REEPast Producer
Teller Pegmatite ClaimREE, Fluorine-Fluorite, Feldspar, Beryllium, ThoriumProducerAllanite, Gadolinite, Microcline, Molybdenite, Monazite, Orthoclase, Quartz, Xenotime
Blue Mountain ProspectCopperOccurrenceChalcopyrite

Every working recorded in Teller County

Storms near this place

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Florissant in 13 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 4 hail, 3 wildfire, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 4 injuries. 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
July 2002WildfireFlorissant2 hurt, $6,000,000no account filed
June 2002WildfireFlorissant2 hurt, $6,000,000no account filed
April 2002WildfireFlorissant$40,000no account filed
June 2014Dust DevilFlorissant$15,000EF1 damage was done to the building.
August 2022Flash FloodFlorissant-Report of flooding over us highway 24 east of Florissant.
May 2014Tornado (EF0)Florissant-A short-lived tornado occurred just south of Florissant.
June 2014Tornado (EF1)Florissant-A tornado occurred in eastern Park County, caused damage in Lake George, then crossed into Teller County and uprooted several dozen trees.
August 2014Flash FloodFlorissant-Water and mud flows over US Highway 24 over 6 inches deep impeded traffic and caused a brief closure for clean up.
July 2006Flash FloodFlorissant-Heavy thunderstorm rains and subsequent flooding caused damage of roads in the Turkey Creek Basin of Teller County.
July 2007HailFlorissant-no account filed
July 2005HailFlorissant-no account filed
June 1998HailFlorissant-no account filed
August 1993HailFlorissant-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
Divide7.0 miles25
Midland9.1 miles28
Woodland Park12.8 miles25
Crystola13.9 miles25
Gillett (historical)14.3 miles28
Green Mountain Falls14.5 miles25
Cripple Creek15.0 miles26
Stratton15.5 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 FlorissantAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5461910The 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 191155. 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.