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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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Georgetown within Clear Creek County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Georgetown 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,034
20201,118+84 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 29 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

35 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined16
Recreation and ceremony10
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
5 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandWEST CHICAGO CREEK
27 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandUTE CREEK
26 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
24 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreClear Creek County OfficeCCX 884
23 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandTHREE CHIEFS
17 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
16 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandSOUTH CHICAGO
13 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandWEST CHICAGO CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clear Creek County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 332 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
AmyLead, Zinc, CopperPast Producer
Anglo Saxon MineSilver, Gold, Copper, LeadOccurrenceVein
Anglo-Saxon MineGold, Silver, Lead, CopperPast ProducerVein
Bard Creek MineZinc, Gold, Lead, Silver, CopperOccurrenceLead, Silver
Bellevue-RochesterGold, Copper, Silver, Lead, Uranium, ZincPast ProducerGalena, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Uraninite
Bellview-HudsonGold, Silver, Lead, Copper, ZincProducerVein
Capitol PrizeSilver, Gold, Lead, Copper, ZincProducer
Capitol PrizeGold, Copper, Zinc, Silver, LeadPast Producer
Cascade MineSilver, Gold, Copper, Zinc, LeadPast ProducerGalena, Pyrargyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite, Silver
Colorado Central MineZinc, Lead, Silver, Gold, CopperPast ProducerArgentite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Polybasite, Proustite, Pyrargyrite, Silver, Sphalerite, Stephanite, Tetrahedrite

Every working recorded in Clear Creek County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2003LightningGeorgetown1 hurtA teenage was injured when he was struck while camping at Herman Lake. The boy was knocked unconcious and suffered minor injuries.
July 2012Tornado (EF0)Georgetown-A tornado touched down briefly but did no damage.
July 1999Heavy RainGeorgetown-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 2006Thunderstorm WindGeorgetown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clear Creek 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
Silverdale (historical)1.0 miles29
Silver Plume1.7 miles29
Empire3.9 miles29
Lamartine4.6 miles28
Graymont5.5 miles31
Lawson5.5 miles29
Bakerville5.8 miles31
Freeland6.0 miles28

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 GeorgetownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1010521The 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.