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.
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
Gold Hill Historic Districtlisted 1989- Snowbound Mine
Population over time
2 figuresGold 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 230 | |
| 2020 | 218 | -12 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 28 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.
- 1902 USGS Boulder quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Boulder quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Boulder quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Gold Hill quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
- 1957 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Estes Park quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
What the histories say of this town
473 words1 chapter about Gold Hill from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.
| Chapter | From | Length |
|---|---|---|
| History | History and Production of the Gold Fields of Boulder County, Colorado (1905) | 473 words |
Fires near this place
189 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 77 |
| Natural | 48 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 30 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | IA 657 |
| 7 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | NORTH EAST SUGARLOAF |
| 6 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 6,382 acres | Royal Gorge Field Office | FOURMILE CANYON |
| 5 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Lefthand Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 5 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | SLAUGHTERHOUSE |
| 5 September 2013 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Lefthand Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 5 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | MT. ALTO |
| 3 September 2013 | Smoking | under an acre | Lefthand Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 531 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argo | Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper | Producer | Vein | |
| Argo | Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Copper, Uranium, Lead, Silver | Past Producer | Fluorspar, Galena, Sphalerite, Pyrite, Tennantite, Chalcopyrite, Enargite | |
| Beryl #2 | Niobium (Columbium), Feldspar, Beryllium, Mica | Producer | Beryl, Feldspar, Mica | |
| Beryl Lode Claim | Beryllium, Feldspar | Past Producer | ||
| Beryl No.1 & 2 Claims | Beryllium, Mica, Niobium (Columbium), Feldspar | Past Producer | ||
| Black Hope No One | REE | Past Producer | ||
| Buckhorn | Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | Pyrite, Chalcopyrite, Galena | |
| Buena Mine | Silver, Gold, Copper, Tungsten, Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | Krennerite, Gold, Sylvanite, Petzite | |
| Castle Gulch | Gemstone, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Cobalt Gold Mining Co | Nickel, Gold | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 2018Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2019 | Heavy Rain | Gold Hill | - | Heavy rainfall produced minor flooding. Mud and rocks washed onto Left Hand Canyon Drive, between Gold Hill and Lee Hill Road. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Gold Hill | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gold Hill | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Gold Hill | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gold Hill | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold Run | 0.6 miles | 28 | |
| Summerville | 0.9 miles | 28 | |
| Rowena | 1.4 miles | 28 | |
| Wallstreet | 2.0 miles | 28 | |
| Salina | 2.2 miles | 29 | |
| Sunshine | 2.3 miles | 29 | |
| Glendale | 2.6 miles | 29 | |
| Crisman | 3.0 miles | 29 |
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 Hill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1534613 | 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 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.










