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Goldfield, Colorado

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Cripple Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80860. It lies near Battle Mountain (historical). The Survey maps it on the Cripple Creek South quadrangle. 63 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Goldfield within Teller County

On record in Goldfield

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Goldfield grew from 49 to 63 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
201049
202063+14 (+29%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 26 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

54 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Goldfield between 1992 and 2020, burning about 210 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined23
Natural13
Arson/incendiarism5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

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 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTeller Countynot named
23 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCripple Creek Fire & Emergency ServicesUNKNOWN
23 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCripple Creek Fire & Emergency ServicesUNKNOWN
12 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersVICTOR
4 August 2000Naturalunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficePONY GULCH
24 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCripple Creek Fire & Emergency ServicesUNKNOWN
8 July 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTeller Countynot named
7 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCripple Creek Fire & Emergency ServicesUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Teller County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 512 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 512 workings within 5 miles of Goldfield: 487 past producers, 15 producers, 7 occurrences, 2 plants. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Gemstone. 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
Ajax MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
C.K. & N. Lode, El Paso, Moon AnchorGold, Silver, TelluriumProducerVein
CaledoniaFeldsparPast ProducerUnderground
Cripple Creek DistrictGold, Semiprecious Gemstone, Antimony, Silver, Mercury, TelluriumProducerCalaverite, Gold, Sylvanite, Turquoise, Krennerite
Florence Lode ClaimGemstoneProducerTurquoise
Gedney TitaniumTitaniumPast Producer
Hull CityGold, Copper, SilverPast Producer
Portland No 2Sand and Gravel, Construction, GoldOccurrence
Molly KathleenGold, SilverPast ProducerUnderground
UnknownGold, SilverProducer

Every working recorded in Teller 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
Hollywood0.7 miles26
Victor0.9 miles26
Independence (historical)1.1 miles26
Altman (historical)1.3 miles26
Elkton1.3 miles26
Midway1.8 miles26
Beacon Hill2.1 miles26
Anaconda (historical)2.2 miles26

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 GoldfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5580132The 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 203536. 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.