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Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Granby census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80451. It stands on Heimbaugh Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hot Sulphur Springs quadrangle. 687 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,680 feet above sea level.

Hot Sulphur Springs within Grand County

Population over time

2 figures

Hot Sulphur Springs grew from 663 to 687 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
2010663
2020687+24 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Hot Sulphur Springs between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,206 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural5
Firearms and explosives use2
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
8 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNorthwest District, CraigMCQUEARY
25 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
15 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresNorthwest District, CraigCOUNTY RD 3
24 August 2015Firearms and explosives use643 acresNorthwest District, CraigRIFLE RANGE
22 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorthwest District, CraigBYERS RANGE
13 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKremmling Field OfficeLOG
12 August 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthwest District, CraigKINNEY CRK
5 July 2001Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, CraigCHIMNY RCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grand County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Hot Sulphur Springs: 9 occurrences, 4 producers, 3 past producers, 2 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hot Sulphur SpringsGeothermalUnknown
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
Lease #011850UraniumOccurrence
Lucky JackUraniumOccurrence
UnknownClayOccurrenceClay
UnknownUraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Grand 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
Parshall4.0 miles18
Granby8.7 miles25
Troublesome10.0 miles15
Elkdale12.0 miles25
Tabernash14.8 miles26
Kremmling15.2 miles15
Fraser17.5 miles26
Leal18.4 miles16

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 Hot Sulphur SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2275053The 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 173265. 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.