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Gold Hill, Colorado

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Bald Mountain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80302. It lies near Lick Skillet Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Gold Hill quadrangle. 218 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 8,301 feet above sea level.

Gold Hill within Boulder County

On record in Gold Hill

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Gold Hill fell from 230 to 218 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
2010230
2020218-12 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 28 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.

What the histories say of this town

473 words

1 chapter about Gold Hill from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

ChapterFrom Length
HistoryHistory and Production of the Gold Fields of Boulder County, Colorado (1905)473 words

Fires near this place

189 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Gold Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,815 acres in total. 48 started naturally. 7 were 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/undetermined77
Natural48
Recreation and ceremony30
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism7
Debris and open burning6
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks3
Other causes1

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 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandIA 657
7 September 1994Naturalunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandNORTH EAST SUGARLOAF
6 September 2010Debris and open burning6,382 acresRoyal Gorge Field OfficeFOURMILE CANYON
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLefthand Fire Protection DistrictN/A
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandSLAUGHTERHOUSE
5 September 2013Natural1.0 acresLefthand Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
5 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandMT. ALTO
3 September 2013Smokingunder an acreLefthand Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boulder County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 531 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 531 workings within 5 miles of Gold Hill: 299 past producers, 173 occurrences, 48 producers, 7 unknowns. 48 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Tungsten, Uranium. 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
ArgoUranium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Silver, Lead, CopperProducerVein
ArgoFluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Copper, Uranium, Lead, SilverPast ProducerFluorspar, Galena, Sphalerite, Pyrite, Tennantite, Chalcopyrite, Enargite
Beryl #2Niobium (Columbium), Feldspar, Beryllium, MicaProducerBeryl, Feldspar, Mica
Beryl Lode ClaimBeryllium, FeldsparPast Producer
Beryl No.1 & 2 ClaimsBeryllium, Mica, Niobium (Columbium), FeldsparPast Producer
Black Hope No OneREEPast Producer
BuckhornGold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Fluorine-FluoritePast ProducerPyrite, Chalcopyrite, Galena
Buena MineSilver, Gold, Copper, Tungsten, Fluorine-FluoritePast ProducerKrennerite, Gold, Sylvanite, Petzite
Castle GulchGemstone, SilverPast Producer
Cobalt Gold Mining CoNickel, GoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Boulder County

Storms near this place

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gold Hill in 5 storm reports between 2018 and 2022: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
July 2019Heavy RainGold Hill-Heavy rainfall produced minor flooding. Mud and rocks washed onto Left Hand Canyon Drive, between Gold Hill and Lee Hill Road.
July 2022HailGold Hill-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindGold Hill-no account filed
May 2018HailGold Hill-no account filed
August 2018Thunderstorm WindGold Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boulder 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
Gold Run0.6 miles28
Summerville0.9 miles28
Rowena1.4 miles28
Wallstreet2.0 miles28
Salina2.2 miles29
Sunshine2.3 miles29
Glendale2.6 miles29
Crisman3.0 miles29

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 Gold HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1534613The 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 178502. 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.