Minturn, Colorado
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Minturn-Red Cliff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81645. It stands on Martin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Minturn quadrangle. 1,033 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,861 feet above sea level.
On record in Minturn
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
Tigiwon Community Houselisted 2015- Notch Mountain Shelterlisted 2015
Population over time
2 figuresMinturn grew from 1,027 to 1,033 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 | 1,027 | |
| 2020 | 1,033 | +6 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 21 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.
- 1934 USGS Minturn quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1950 USGS Minturn quadrangle1:62500, 3 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 Minturn quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1980 USGS Vail quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
110 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Minturn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 179 acres in total. 18 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 34 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 33 |
| Natural | 18 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Vail Fire and Emergency Services | UNKNOWN |
| 9 September 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | White River National Forest | RADIO TOWER |
| 7 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | White River National Forest | AVON |
| 7 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | White River National Forest | GAME CREEK |
| 5 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | White River National Forest | DAVOS |
| 5 September 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 acres | Eagle County | not named |
| 4 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Eagle County | not named |
| 4 September 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 28 acres | White River National Forest | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 17 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Minturn: 7 past producers, 5 occurrences, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Iron, Silver, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eagle | Iron, Silver, Gold | Occurrence | Limonite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Siderite, Turgite | |
| Eagle | Arsenic | Occurrence | ||
| Eagle #2 | Aluminum | Occurrence | ||
| Eagle Mine | Zinc, Silver, Copper, Lead, Gold, Manganese | Past Producer | 1879 | |
| Gilman | Zinc | Producer | Replacement | |
| Gilman (Red Cliff) District | Lead, Gold, Zinc, Silver, Copper, Manganese, Iron | Past Producer | Anglesite, Chalcopyrite, Cerargyrite, Cerussite, Galena, Hemimorphite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite, Psilomelane, Pyrolusite, Smithsonite | |
| Iron Mask | Gold, Silver, Zinc, Manganese, Lead | Producer | Replacement | |
| Tip Top Mine | Lead, Zinc, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Magnesite, Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Ute Park, High Line, Blue Jay | Gold | Occurrence | Placer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dowds Junction | 1.8 miles | 21 | |
| Astor City (historical) | 2.8 miles | 21 | |
| West Vail | 3.1 miles | 19 | |
| Eagles Nest | 3.2 miles | 21 | |
| Mid Vail | 3.9 miles | 21 | |
| Gilman | 4.2 miles | 21 | |
| Beaver Creek Village | 4.7 miles | 13 | |
| Vail | 4.8 miles | 21 |
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 Minturn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2076232 | 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 176136. 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.








