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Idledale, Colorado

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Golden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80453. It lies near Sawmill Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Morrison quadrangle. 244 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,466 feet above sea level.

Idledale within Jefferson County

On record in Idledale

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Idledale fell from 252 to 244 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
2010252
2020244-8 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 25 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

238 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 238 fires within 5 miles of Idledale between 2003 and 2020, burning about 222 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined187
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural12
Smoking8
Recreation and ceremony7
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks2
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
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersINDIAN HILLS
8 September 2019Naturalunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWest Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGolden Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWest Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
4 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGolden Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGenesee Fire RescueUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 89 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 89 workings within 5 miles of Idledale: 36 producers, 30 occurrences, 20 past producers, 2 unknowns. 36 still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay, Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bear CreekGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Blackstone ClaimUranium, Radium, VanadiumProspect
Burroughs Feldspar MineFeldspar, Beryllium, Mica, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, Bismuth, REE, Uranium, Thorium, LithiumPast Producer1942, 1944
Capitol CentralLead, Gold, Silver, ZincUnknown
FoothillsGold, SilverPast Producer
Four Corners MineUranium, Vanadium, MolybdenumPast Producer1954, 1955, 1960
Genessee Mountain Scheelite OccurrenceTungstenOccurrenceScheelite
Grapevine MineUranium, VanadiumPast Producer1955
Idledale DistrictUranium, Copper, Lead, ZincPast Producer1955, 1968
Malachite MineGold, Copper, Silver, Zinc, Nickel, LeadPast Producer1866, 1888

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Idledale in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 6 hail. The reports record 90 injuries. 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 2023HailIdledale90 hurtDozens were injured at Red Rocks Park when a severe thunderstorm pummeled the venue with large hail.
June 2023HailIdledale-no account filed
August 2019HailIdledale-no account filed
August 2018HailIdledale-no account filed
May 2017HailIdledale-no account filed
June 2010HailIdledale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Genesee Ridge1.8 miles24
Genesee2.0 miles24
Riva Chase2.2 miles24
Indians Hills2.4 miles24
Morrison2.9 miles25
Kittredge3.0 miles24
Paradise Hills3.2 miles24
Indian Hills3.4 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 IdledaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5844913The 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 204713. 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.