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Larkspur, Colorado

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Castle Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80118. It stands on Carpenter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Larkspur quadrangle. 223 people lived here at the 2024 count. It stands 6,726 feet above sea level.

Larkspur within Douglas County

On record in Larkspur

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Larkspur grew from 183 to 223 between 2010 and 2024. 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
2010183
2024223+40 (+22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 27 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

104 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Larkspur between 1992 and 2020, burning about 266 acres in total. 14 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/undetermined67
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use9
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism5
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDouglas Countynot named
7 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreDouglas Countynot named
5 September 1995Debris and open burning3.0 acresDouglas Countynot named
28 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDouglas Countynot named
28 September 1994Debris and open burning2.5 acresDouglas Countynot named
26 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDouglas Countynot named
26 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresDouglas Countynot named
25 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Larkspur: 7 producers, 3 past producers, 2 occurrences. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite, 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
ChurchillSilicaPast Producer
LarkspurClayPast Producer
Perry ParkGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
WareFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence
Larkspur PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSedimentary
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Larkspur in 27 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 23 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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 2002Flash FloodLarkspur-Heavy rain washed out a frontage road. The Mountain Ranch subdivision was also flooded.
August 1993HailLarkspur-A severe thunderstorm dropped hail up to dime-size in Larkspur (26 miles north northwest of Colorado Springs).
June 2024Thunderstorm WindLarkspur-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLarkspur-no account filed
September 2019HailLarkspur-no account filed
May 2017HailLarkspur-no account filed
June 2016HailLarkspur-no account filed
June 2016HailLarkspur-no account filed
June 2015HailLarkspur-no account filed
June 2015HailLarkspur-no account filed
June 2015HailLarkspur-no account filed
May 2015HailLarkspur-no account filed
June 2011HailLarkspur-no account filed
July 2010HailLarkspur-no account filed
July 2009HailLarkspur-no account filed
August 2007HailLarkspur-no account filed
August 2007HailLarkspur-no account filed
August 2007HailLarkspur-no account filed
May 2006HailLarkspur-no account filed
August 2006HailLarkspur-no account filed
June 2005HailLarkspur-no account filed
June 2004HailLarkspur-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindLarkspur-no account filed
May 2000HailLarkspur-no account filed
August 1998HailLarkspur-no account filed
July 1996HailLarkspur-no account filed
July 1995HailLarkspur-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Greenland3.6 miles23
Spruce5.0 miles27
Tomah5.1 miles28
Perry Park5.9 miles28
Monte Vista Estates9.6 miles28
Castle Rock10.0 miles28
Founders Village11.0 miles28
Shamballah-Ashrama11.1 miles29

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 LarkspurAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2456193The 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 193176. 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.