Leadville, Colorado
32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Leadville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80461. It lies near Poverty Flat. The Survey maps it on the Leadville North quadrangle. 2,633 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10,151 feet above sea level.
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On record in Leadville
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 8 records
Tabor Opera HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
Derry Mining Site Camplisted 2000
Dexter Cabinlisted 1970
Golden Burro Cafe and Loungelisted 2023
Hayden Ranch Headquarterslisted 2003
Healy Houselisted 1970
Leadville National Fish Hatcherylisted 1980
Matchless Minelisted 2010
Population over time
2 figuresLeadville grew from 2,602 to 2,633 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,602 | |
| 2020 | 2,633 | +31 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 32 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1889 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1942 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:125000
- 1949 USGS Holy Cross quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
- 1951 USGS Holy Cross quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Leadville North quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1983 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Leadville North quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
68 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Leadville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined | 31 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 23 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | N/A |
| 5 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Lake County | CABIN |
| 30 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | GOLF COURSE |
| 28 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | not named |
| 15 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | MAID OF ERIN |
| 14 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Leadville / Lake County Fire Rescue | UNKNOWN |
| 13 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Leadville / Lake County Fire Rescue | UNKNOWN |
| 11 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Front Range District Office | ZION |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 352 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 352 workings within 5 miles of Leadville: 300 past producers, 26 producers, 24 occurrences, 2 plants. 28 still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Manganese, Lead, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antioch Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Ball Mountain | Lead, Silver, Zinc, Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Ball Mtn. Property | Zinc, Lead, Copper | Producer | ||
| Ballard-President-Big Six | Iron, Silver, Bismuth | Producer | Replacement | |
| Black Cloud Mill | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Copper, Gold | Plant | ||
| Black Cloud Mine | Lead, Zinc, Gold, Silver, Copper | Producer | 1971 | |
| Chalk Mtn | Garnet | Producer | ||
| Columbia Tunnel | Lead, Zinc, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Diamond Mine | Gold, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Elk & Grey Swan Group | Lead, Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leadville in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 4 lightning, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1998 | Lightning | Leadville | 2 hurt, $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Lightning | Leadville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Lightning | Leadville | $3,000 | A lightning flash struck in the front yard of a house, traveled a wire fence to the front of the house, and onto the aluminum siding. A window was broken on the house, and two tires on a car were flattened. The solar energy system of the house was also damaged. |
| August 1999 | Lightning | Leadville | $1,000 | A lightning flash struck the U.S. Forest Service building, destroying the electrical box on the south side of the building. |
| August 2023 | Heavy Rain | Leadville | - | One point one inches fell in 20 minutes. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Leadville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resurrection Mill | 1.4 miles | 30 | |
| Adelaide (historical) | 1.8 miles | 30 | |
| Stringtown | 1.8 miles | 30 | |
| Oro (historical) | 2.4 miles | 30 | |
| Leadville Junction | 2.6 miles | 32 | |
| Malta | 3.4 miles | 30 | |
| Birdseye | 5.4 miles | 35 | |
| Mount Massive Lakes | 6.8 miles | 30 |
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 Leadville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q286702 | The 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 204683. 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.












