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Garfield, Colorado

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Salida census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81227. It stands on Middle Fork South Arkansas River. The Survey maps it on the Garfield quadrangle. 27 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 9,541 feet above sea level.

Garfield within Chaffee County

Population over time

2 figures

Garfield grew from 15 to 27 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
201015
202027+12 (+80%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Garfield between 1994 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. 4 started naturally. None 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
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1
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
28 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestGOAT WADI
17 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestANGEL
9 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChaffee CountyMC CLURE CREEK
9 August 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National ForestsOLD MONARCH
4 August 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestMIDDLE FORK
14 August 2000Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestTRAM
12 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestMILE MARKER 204
14 July 1994Naturalunder an acreGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forestsnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chaffee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 120 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 120 workings within 5 miles of Garfield: 77 past producers, 21 producers, 19 occurrences, 2 prospects. 21 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Silver, 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
Alaska MineSilver, Gold, LeadPast Producer
Annie HudsonZinc, SilverProducerReplacement
Bill ShortGold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Cadmium, ZincProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Greenockite, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Clinton MineCopper, Gold, Lead, Manganese, SilverPast Producer1904
Congress TunnelLead, CopperOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite
Copper HillMolybdenum, CopperOccurrenceMolybdenite
Copper KingNickel, GoldPast Producer
DesdemonaGold, Copper, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Erie MineZinc, Lead, Silver, Copper, GoldPast ProducerReplacement
Giant EclipseGold, Silver, Lead, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Chaffee 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
Shavano (historical)3.5 miles20
Maysville5.5 miles17
Stonewall (historical)6.5 miles20
Hancock (historical)7.1 miles20
Romley (historical)9.5 miles20
Saint Elmo (historical)11.0 miles20
Alpine (historical)11.0 miles20
Iron City (historical)11.1 miles20

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 GarfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5523032The 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 204757. 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.