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Manitou Springs, Colorado

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Monument census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80829. It lies near Williams Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Manitou Springs quadrangle. 4,858 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,358 feet above sea level.

Manitou Springs within El Paso County

On record in Manitou Springs

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 12 records

Population over time

2 figures

Manitou Springs fell from 4,992 to 4,858 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
20104,992
20204,858-134 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 37 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

593 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 593 fires within 5 miles of Manitou Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19,777 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined496
Natural27
Recreation and ceremony22
Smoking19
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
9 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
8 September 2018Smokingunder an acreColorado Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestEAGLE LAKE
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
3 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestCAMP #1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in El Paso County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 56 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 56 workings within 5 miles of Manitou Springs: 30 producers, 16 occurrences, 8 past producers, 1 prospect. 30 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Black CanyonMagnesite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Black CanyonStone, Crushed/Broken, MagnesitePast Producer
Blair Athol MineCopper, Uranium, ManganesePast ProducerChalcocite
Camp Creek MineSilver, GoldOccurrence
Castle Concrete Lennox BMagnesite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Crystal Park AreaBeryllium, Gemstone, Niobium (Columbium), REEProducerAmazonstone, Zircon
Gold Hill Mesa tailingsGold, SilverPast Producertailings
KenmuirStone, DimensionProducer
South Apache Creek ProspectsUranium, VanadiumProspect
Springs Silica CoSilica, QuartzPast Producer

Every working recorded in El Paso 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
Minnehaha2.3 miles37
Glen Eyrie2.8 miles34
Midway3.2 miles37
Cascade3.9 miles34
Old Mountain View (historical)4.3 miles37
Roswell5.3 miles32
Colorado Springs5.4 miles32
Ivywild5.5 miles32

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 Manitou SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2086787The 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 193457. 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.