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.
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
Florissant Schoollisted 1990
Hornbek Houselisted 1981
Twin Creek Ranchlisted 1997
Population over time
2 figuresFlorissant 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 104 | |
| 2020 | 128 | +24 (+23%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 30 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.
- 1894 USGS Pikes Peak quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1901 USGS Pikes Peak quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Lake George quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
- 1957 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Florissant quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Pikes Peak quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Lake George quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
226 since 1993Regional 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/undetermined | 146 |
| Natural | 40 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 3 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Four Mile Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 3 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 20 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florissant Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 20 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 15 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 14 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 1 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 15 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air Line | Gold | Past Producer | Underground | |
| Black Cloud Mine | Feldspar, Quartz, Thorium, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, Beryllium, REE | Producer | Apatite, Beryl, Columbite, Feldspar, Fluorite, Microlite, Pyrochlore, Quartz, Tantalite | |
| Black Cloud Quarry | Feldspar, Beryllium, Quartz | Past Producer | ||
| Blue Mountain Mine | Copper, Zinc | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Sphalerite | |
| Crystal Peak Topaz Prospects | Gemstone, Feldspar | Prospect | ||
| Crystal Peak Topaz Prospects | Gemstone, Semiprecious Gemstone, Tin | Prospect | 1865 | |
| Florissant Area | Pumice | Producer | ||
| Teller Pegmatite | Feldspar, REE | Past Producer | ||
| Teller Pegmatite Claim | REE, Fluorine-Fluorite, Feldspar, Beryllium, Thorium | Producer | Allanite, Gadolinite, Microcline, Molybdenite, Monazite, Orthoclase, Quartz, Xenotime | |
| Blue Mountain Prospect | Copper | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite |
Storms near this place
13 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2002 | Wildfire | Florissant | 2 hurt, $6,000,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Wildfire | Florissant | 2 hurt, $6,000,000 | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Wildfire | Florissant | $40,000 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Dust Devil | Florissant | $15,000 | EF1 damage was done to the building. |
| August 2022 | Flash Flood | Florissant | - | Report of flooding over us highway 24 east of Florissant. |
| May 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Florissant | - | A short-lived tornado occurred just south of Florissant. |
| June 2014 | Tornado (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 2014 | Flash Flood | Florissant | - | Water and mud flows over US Highway 24 over 6 inches deep impeded traffic and caused a brief closure for clean up. |
| July 2006 | Flash Flood | Florissant | - | Heavy thunderstorm rains and subsequent flooding caused damage of roads in the Turkey Creek Basin of Teller County. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Florissant | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Florissant | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Florissant | - | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Hail | Florissant | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Divide | 7.0 miles | 25 | |
| Midland | 9.1 miles | 28 | |
| Woodland Park | 12.8 miles | 25 | |
| Crystola | 13.9 miles | 25 | |
| Gillett (historical) | 14.3 miles | 28 | |
| Green Mountain Falls | 14.5 miles | 25 | |
| Cripple Creek | 15.0 miles | 26 | |
| Stratton | 15.5 miles | 26 |
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 Florissant | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5461910 | 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 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.











