Georgetown, Colorado
29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Georgetown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80444. It stands on South Clear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Georgetown quadrangle. 1,118 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 8,530 feet above sea level.
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On record in Georgetown
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 8 records
Georgetown Loop Railroadlisted 1970
Grace Episcopal Churchlisted 1973
Hamill Houselisted 1972
Hotel de Parislisted 1970
McClellan Houselisted 1972
Ore Processing Mill and Damlisted 1971
Toll Houselisted 1970- Alpine Hose Company No. 2listed 1973
Population over time
2 figuresGeorgetown grew from 1,034 to 1,118 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 | 1,034 | |
| 2020 | 1,118 | +84 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 29 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.
- 1903 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1957 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
- 1958 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Denver West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
35 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Georgetown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | WEST CHICAGO CREEK |
| 27 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | UTE CREEK |
| 26 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 24 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Clear Creek County Office | CCX 884 |
| 23 September 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | THREE CHIEFS |
| 17 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 16 September 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | SOUTH CHICAGO |
| 13 September 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | WEST CHICAGO CREEK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 332 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 332 workings within 5 miles of Georgetown: 262 past producers, 32 occurrences, 30 producers, 6 unknowns. 30 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Lead, Silver. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amy | Lead, Zinc, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Anglo Saxon Mine | Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Anglo-Saxon Mine | Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Bard Creek Mine | Zinc, Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper | Occurrence | Lead, Silver | |
| Bellevue-Rochester | Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead, Uranium, Zinc | Past Producer | Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Uraninite | |
| Bellview-Hudson | Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc | Producer | Vein | |
| Capitol Prize | Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper, Zinc | Producer | ||
| Capitol Prize | Gold, Copper, Zinc, Silver, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Cascade Mine | Silver, Gold, Copper, Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | Galena, Pyrargyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite, Silver | |
| Colorado Central Mine | Zinc, Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | Argentite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Polybasite, Proustite, Pyrargyrite, Silver, Sphalerite, Stephanite, Tetrahedrite |
Storms near this place
4 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Georgetown in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2012: 1 heavy rain, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2003 | Lightning | Georgetown | 1 hurt | A teenage was injured when he was struck while camping at Herman Lake. The boy was knocked unconcious and suffered minor injuries. |
| July 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Georgetown | - | A tornado touched down briefly but did no damage. |
| July 1999 | Heavy Rain | Georgetown | - | Heavy rainfall, up to 3 inches in an hour, triggered a massive rock and mudslide along Interstate 70 near Bakerville. The slide area was approximately 200 feet wide and 20 feet deep. Several other smaller slides were also reported along the interstate. As a result, Interstate 70 was closed for nearly 25 hours in both directions until the debris could be cleared from the roadway. The 25-hr blockage of I-70 was one of the longest of the interstate's history in Colorado. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silverdale (historical) | 1.0 miles | 29 | |
| Silver Plume | 1.7 miles | 29 | |
| Empire | 3.9 miles | 29 | |
| Lamartine | 4.6 miles | 28 | |
| Graymont | 5.5 miles | 31 | |
| Lawson | 5.5 miles | 29 | |
| Bakerville | 5.8 miles | 31 | |
| Freeland | 6.0 miles | 28 |
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 Georgetown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1010521 | 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 181892. 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.








