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Fort Carson, Colorado

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Fountain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80913. It lies near Limekiln Valley. The Survey maps it on the Cheyenne Mountain quadrangle. 17,693 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,814 feet above sea level.

Fort Carson within El Paso County

Population over time

2 figures

Fort Carson grew from 13,813 to 17,693 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
201013,813
202017,693+3,880 (+28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 34 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

730 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 730 fires within 5 miles of Fort Carson between 1994 and 2020, burning about 6,112 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined608
Smoking33
Equipment and vehicle use21
Debris and open burning18
Natural16
Arson/incendiarism15
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Fireworks5
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1

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
9 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
9 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresEl Paso CountyUNKNOWN
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreStratmoor Hills Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
7 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
6 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreStratmoor Hills Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSecurity Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
6 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreStratmoor Hills Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in El Paso County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Fort Carson: 29 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 29 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone. 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
South Cheyenne MineStoneUnknown
UnknownClayOccurrenceClay
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
CarsonSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in El Paso 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
Stratmoor2.6 miles32
Skinners2.6 miles32
Security2.8 miles32
Stratmoor Hills3.2 miles32
Rock Creek Park3.6 miles34
Widefield3.7 miles32
Kelker4.0 miles32
Stratton Meadows4.7 miles32

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 Fort CarsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q602739The 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 204833. 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.