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Mount Crested Butte, Colorado

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Crested Butte census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81225. It lies near Washington Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Gothic quadrangle. 941 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 9,898 feet above sea level.

Mount Crested Butte within Gunnison County

Population over time

2 figures

Mount Crested Butte grew from 801 to 941 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
2010801
2020941+140 (+17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 26 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

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Mount Crested Butte between 1994 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 5 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1
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
8 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCrested Butte Fire Protection DistrictN/A
5 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National ForestsWASHINGTON
23 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersCRESTED BUTTE
18 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National ForestsRED LADY
30 August 2006Naturalunder an acreGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National ForestsGOTHIC
29 August 2016Naturalunder an acreGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National ForestsGOTHIC
29 August 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseSLATE
24 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gunnison County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 38 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Mount Crested Butte: 16 occurrences, 10 past producers, 7 unknowns, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Silver, Zinc. 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
Crested ButteMolybdenum, Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, ZincProducer
DaisySilver, Lead, Zinc, CopperProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Tetrahedrite
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gunnison County Mines RprGold, Zinc, SilverPast Producer
Horace Porter MineCobalt, NickelPast Producer
Iron Dune, Copper Queen, Silver Bell, Copper Glance, Copper ExtensionSilver, Copper, Zinc, Barium-BariteOccurrenceSilver
Iron KingBarium-Barite, Zinc, IronOccurrence
KeystoneLead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, CopperProducer
Keystone MineLead, Zinc, CopperPast Producer
Mt. Emmons/Crested ButteMolybdenum, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Gold, LeadPast Producer1976

Every working recorded in Gunnison 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
Crested Butte2.9 miles23
Gothic3.6 miles26
Elkton5.1 miles27
Pittsburg5.8 miles27
Irwin7.2 miles26
Ruby7.3 miles26
Floresta9.3 miles26
Baldwin10.8 miles26

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 Mount Crested ButteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2304156The 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 197451. 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.