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.
Population over time
2 figuresGarfield 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 15 | |
| 2020 | 27 | +12 (+80%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 20 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.
- 1940 USGS Garfield quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1945 USGS Garfield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Garfield quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Gunnison quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Garfield quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
19 since 1994Regional 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 ceremony | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | GOAT WADI |
| 17 September 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | ANGEL |
| 9 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Chaffee County | MC CLURE CREEK |
| 9 August 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | OLD MONARCH |
| 4 August 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | MIDDLE FORK |
| 14 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | TRAM |
| 12 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | MILE MARKER 204 |
| 14 July 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 120 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska Mine | Silver, Gold, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Annie Hudson | Zinc, Silver | Producer | Replacement | |
| Bill Short | Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Cadmium, Zinc | Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Greenockite, Pyrite, Sphalerite | |
| Clinton Mine | Copper, Gold, Lead, Manganese, Silver | Past Producer | 1904 | |
| Congress Tunnel | Lead, Copper | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite | |
| Copper Hill | Molybdenum, Copper | Occurrence | Molybdenite | |
| Copper King | Nickel, Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Desdemona | Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Erie Mine | Zinc, Lead, Silver, Copper, Gold | Past Producer | Replacement | |
| Giant Eclipse | Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shavano (historical) | 3.5 miles | 20 | |
| Maysville | 5.5 miles | 17 | |
| Stonewall (historical) | 6.5 miles | 20 | |
| Hancock (historical) | 7.1 miles | 20 | |
| Romley (historical) | 9.5 miles | 20 | |
| Saint Elmo (historical) | 11.0 miles | 20 | |
| Alpine (historical) | 11.0 miles | 20 | |
| Iron City (historical) | 11.1 miles | 20 |
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 Garfield | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5523032 | 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 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.








