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.
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
Montezuma Schoolhouselisted 2007
Population over time
2 figuresMontezuma 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 65 | |
| 2020 | 74 | +9 (+14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 31 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.
- 1924 USGS Montezuma quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1926 USGS Montezuma quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1933 USGS Montezuma quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1957 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Montezuma quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Montezuma quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1960 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Montezuma quadrangle1:62500
- 1983 USGS Denver West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Montezuma quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
62 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 24 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 21 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | White River National Forest | BERGMAN |
| 7 September 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | WEBSTER |
| 5 September 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | White River National Forest | MONTEZUMA |
| 5 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | White River National Forest | TOWER 6 |
| 28 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Summit County | WEBSTER |
| 26 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Lake Dillon Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 26 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | White River National Forest | PORCUPINE |
| 25 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | White River National Forest | RADICAL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 134 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allan Emory Mine | Silver, Zinc, Lead, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | 1875 | |
| Aorta No 1 | Lead, Zinc, Copper, Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Arrastre Queen Mine | Silver, Gold | Past Producer | 1800, 1881 | |
| Atlantic | Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper, Zinc, Bismuth | Producer | ||
| Bell | Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Gold | Producer | Argentite, Galena, Gold, Proustite, Sphalerite | |
| Blind Tom | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Manganese | Producer | ||
| Bullion | Zinc, Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver | Past Producer | Pyrite, Galena | |
| Cashier Mine | Copper, Lead, Zinc, Gold, Silver | Producer | Vein | |
| Jones Gulch Claims | Gold, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Lenawee Mine | Molybdenum, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Bismuth | Occurrence | Molybdenite |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saints John (historical) | 1.0 miles | 33 | |
| Rexford (historical) | 3.6 miles | 33 | |
| Tiger (historical) | 6.4 miles | 33 | |
| Keystone | 6.5 miles | 33 | |
| Parkville (historical) | 7.2 miles | 23 | |
| Lincoln | 9.0 miles | 23 | |
| Gold Hill | 9.9 miles | 17 | |
| Dillon | 9.9 miles | 16 |
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 Montezuma | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2303176 | 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 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.











