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Montezuma, Colorado

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Breckenridge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80435. It stands on Saints John Creek. The Survey maps it on the Montezuma quadrangle. 74 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10,312 feet above sea level.

Montezuma within Summit County

On record in Montezuma

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Montezuma grew from 65 to 74 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
201065
202074+9 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 31 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

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Montezuma between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined24
Recreation and ceremony21
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2
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
8 September 2005Naturalunder an acreWhite River National ForestBERGMAN
7 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestWEBSTER
5 September 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWhite River National ForestMONTEZUMA
5 September 2000Naturalunder an acreWhite River National ForestTOWER 6
28 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreSummit CountyWEBSTER
26 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLake Dillon Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
26 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWhite River National ForestPORCUPINE
25 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWhite River National ForestRADICAL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 134 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 134 workings within 5 miles of Montezuma: 92 past producers, 32 producers, 9 occurrences, 1 unknown. 32 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Lead, Silver. 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
Allan Emory MineSilver, Zinc, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer1875
Aorta No 1Lead, Zinc, Copper, Gold, SilverPast Producer
Arrastre Queen MineSilver, GoldPast Producer1800, 1881
AtlanticLead, Silver, Gold, Copper, Zinc, BismuthProducer
BellSilver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, GoldProducerArgentite, Galena, Gold, Proustite, Sphalerite
Blind TomLead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, ManganeseProducer
BullionZinc, Copper, Gold, Lead, SilverPast ProducerPyrite, Galena
Cashier MineCopper, Lead, Zinc, Gold, SilverProducerVein
Jones Gulch ClaimsGold, Silver, Zinc, Copper, LeadPast Producer
Lenawee MineMolybdenum, Silver, Lead, Zinc, BismuthOccurrenceMolybdenite

Every working recorded in Summit 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
Saints John (historical)1.0 miles33
Rexford (historical)3.6 miles33
Tiger (historical)6.4 miles33
Keystone6.5 miles33
Parkville (historical)7.2 miles23
Lincoln9.0 miles23
Gold Hill9.9 miles17
Dillon9.9 miles16

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 MontezumaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2303176The 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 182421. 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.