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.
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
Goldfield City Hall and Fire Stationlisted 1984
Population over time
2 figuresGoldfield 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 49 | |
| 2020 | 63 | +14 (+29%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 26 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.
- 1894 USGS Pikes Peak quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1901 USGS Pikes Peak quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1951 USGS Cripple Creek South quadrangle1:24000, 9 printings
- 1954 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Pikes Peak quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
54 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 23 |
| Natural | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Teller County | not named |
| 23 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Cripple Creek Fire & Emergency Services | UNKNOWN |
| 23 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Cripple Creek Fire & Emergency Services | UNKNOWN |
| 12 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | VICTOR |
| 4 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Royal Gorge Field Office | PONY GULCH |
| 24 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Cripple Creek Fire & Emergency Services | UNKNOWN |
| 8 July 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Teller County | not named |
| 7 July 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Cripple Creek Fire & Emergency Services | UNKNOWN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 512 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ajax Mine | Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | ||
| C.K. & N. Lode, El Paso, Moon Anchor | Gold, Silver, Tellurium | Producer | Vein | |
| Caledonia | Feldspar | Past Producer | Underground | |
| Cripple Creek District | Gold, Semiprecious Gemstone, Antimony, Silver, Mercury, Tellurium | Producer | Calaverite, Gold, Sylvanite, Turquoise, Krennerite | |
| Florence Lode Claim | Gemstone | Producer | Turquoise | |
| Gedney Titanium | Titanium | Past Producer | ||
| Hull City | Gold, Copper, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Portland No 2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Molly Kathleen | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | Underground | |
| Unknown | Gold, Silver | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hollywood | 0.7 miles | 26 | |
| Victor | 0.9 miles | 26 | |
| Independence (historical) | 1.1 miles | 26 | |
| Altman (historical) | 1.3 miles | 26 | |
| Elkton | 1.3 miles | 26 | |
| Midway | 1.8 miles | 26 | |
| Beacon Hill | 2.1 miles | 26 | |
| Anaconda (historical) | 2.2 miles | 26 |
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 Goldfield | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5580132 | 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 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.









