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Guffey, Colorado

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Lake George census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80820. It stands on Freshwater Creek. The Survey maps it on the Thirtynine Mile Mountain quadrangle. 111 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 8,658 feet above sea level.

Guffey within Park County

Population over time

2 figures

Guffey grew from 98 to 111 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
201098
2020111+13 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Guffey between 1992 and 2020, burning about 129 acres in total. 25 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
Natural25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
22 September 1995Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestWHERE YA COMIN' FROM
21 August 2020Naturalunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficeLITTLE MACK GULCH 2
21 August 2020Naturalunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficeLITTLE MACK GULCH
11 August 1994Naturalunder an acrePark Countynot named
10 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Park County Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
6 July 2011Natural5.4 acresRoyal Gorge Field OfficeMILL GULCH
4 July 2002Natural8.0 acresRoyal Gorge Field OfficeCABIN GUL
31 July 1993Natural5.0 acresPark Countynot named

Every fire recorded in Park County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Guffey: 15 past producers, 14 occurrences, 4 producers, 2 prospects. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Tungsten, Feldspar, Mica, Mica, Feldspar. 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
Baumer PegmatiteMica, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, REE, ThoriumOccurrenceAllanite, Euxenite, Monazite
Baumer Pegmatite ProspectUranium, Thorium, REEOccurrence1950
Beryllium Lode ProspectMica, Feldspar, BerylliumOccurrence1936, 1950
Betty MineLead, Zinc, Copper, Silver, Gold, CobaltProducer1932, 1960
Betty MineLead, Copper, Gold, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Chumway ParkUranium, VanadiumProspect
Climax MineFeldspar, Mica, Beryllium, QuartzPast Producer1950
Copper King MineGold, Copper, Feldspar, Mica, Tungsten, ZincPast Producer1939
Crescent MineTungsten, Copper, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Gold, MolybdenumPast Producer1919
Famous Lode Mica ProspectMica, Feldspar, Tantalum, REE, Niobium (Columbium), TungstenOccurrence1944

Every working recorded in Park County

Storms near this place

4 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Guffey in 4 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. 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
June 2008LightningGuffey$10,000no account filed
July 2025HailGuffey-The hail lasted 30 minutes.
June 2023Tornado (EF0)Guffey-A tornado touched down and uprooted several softwood trees. Minor damage was also observed at a residence.
August 1993HailGuffey-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Park 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
Balfour15.2 miles14
Trump (historical)15.7 miles14
Lake George18.0 miles30
Glentivar20.9 miles18
Platte Springs23.2 miles30
Pike-San Isabel Village23.3 miles15
Hartsel23.7 miles15
Tarryall25.7 miles24

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 GuffeyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3032513The 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 204772. 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.