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Glenwood Springs, Colorado

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Glenwood Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81601. It lies near Glenwood Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Glenwood Springs quadrangle. 9,963 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,761 feet above sea level.

Glenwood Springs within Garfield County

On record in Glenwood Springs

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 11 records

Population over time

2 figures

Glenwood Springs grew from 9,614 to 9,963 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
20109,614
20209,963+349 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Glenwood Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 32,999 acres in total. 38 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined52
Natural38
Recreation and ceremony11
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks1
Debris and open burning1

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
8 September 2000Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionRAILROAD
29 September 1998Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionGLENWOOD
26 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined34 acresNorthwest District, Grand JunctionGFX ASSIST 17
24 September 2019Naturalunder an acreWhite River National ForestGRIZZLY CREEK
20 September 2010Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand Junction19TH STREET
20 September 2010Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionOASIS CREEK
2 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionWALMART COMMAND
13 September 2005Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionRED CANYON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Garfield County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Glenwood Springs: 3 producers, 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension, Limestone, General, Clay. 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
Glenwood SpringsGeothermalUnknown
Strong MineLead, ZincPast Producer
UnknownLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
UnknownClayOccurrenceClay
Glenwood Lime QuarryLimestone, DimensionProducer
Marblehead QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Jammeron PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand and Gravel
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Garfield 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
Funston1.5 miles22
No Name1.8 miles22
Cardiff3.2 miles22
Chacra6.7 miles20
Cattle Creek7.2 miles15
Kiggin9.7 miles16
Satank10.7 miles16
New Castle11.3 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 Glenwood SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q927455The 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 204659. 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.