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Hartsel, Colorado

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Fairplay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80449. It stands on Fourmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hartsel quadrangle. 38 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 8,865 feet above sea level.

Hartsel within Park County

On record in Hartsel

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Hartsel fell from 677 to 38 between 2000 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
2000677
202038-639 (-94%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

9 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Hartsel between 2011 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9

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
15 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreJefferson-Como Fire Protection DistrictN/A
9 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersHARTSEL
5 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersHARTSEL
5 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersHARTSEL
12 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersHARTSEL
12 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
12 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
10 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersHARTSEL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Park County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Hartsel: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc, Clay. 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
Clay PitClayProducer
Hartsel Hot SpringsGeothermalUnknown
South Park Mining CoZeolites, MagnesitePast Producer
UnknownBarium-BariteOccurrenceBarite
UnknownLead, ZincPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Park County

Storms near this place

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hartsel in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 7 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 2021Flash FloodHartsel$5,000Heavy rain near Weston Pass caused localized flash flooding along State Highway 9 in southern Park County. An SUV got stuck in the flood waters but no injuries were reported.
July 2018Tornado (EF0)Hartsel-A tornado touched down in open country. No damage as reported.
June 2016HailHartsel-Large hail punched holes in a greenhouse roof and shredded a patio tent.
June 2016HailHartsel-no account filed
June 2016HailHartsel-no account filed
June 2010HailHartsel-no account filed
June 1997HailHartsel-no account filed
June 1997HailHartsel-no account filed
June 1997HailHartsel-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
Pike-San Isabel Village4.5 miles15
Garo7.8 miles15
Haver8.0 miles19
Balfour8.8 miles14
Glentivar10.3 miles18
Antero Junction11.3 miles19
Trump (historical)11.9 miles14
Fairplay17.8 miles23

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 HartselAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3127987The 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 183776. 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.