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Mountain Meadows, Colorado

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Bald Mountain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80302. It lies near Logan Hill. The Survey maps it on the Gold Hill quadrangle. 237 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,260 feet above sea level.

Mountain Meadows within Boulder County

Population over time

2 figures

Mountain Meadows fell from 274 to 237 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
2010274
2020237-37 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 28 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

283 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 283 fires within 5 miles of Mountain Meadows between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,010 acres in total. 54 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined155
Natural54
Recreation and ceremony38
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking6
Debris and open burning6
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresBoulder Fire Rescue DepartmentUNKNOWN
8 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandIA 657
7 September 1994Naturalunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandHAWKINS
7 September 1994Naturalunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandNORTH EAST SUGARLOAF
6 September 2010Debris and open burning6,382 acresRoyal Gorge Field OfficeFOURMILE CANYON
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersBOULDER
5 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandMT. ALTO
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boulder County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 454 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 454 workings within 5 miles of Mountain Meadows: 275 past producers, 139 occurrences, 36 producers, 4 unknowns. 36 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Tungsten, Gold, 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
Beryl #2Niobium (Columbium), Feldspar, Beryllium, MicaProducerBeryl, Feldspar, Mica
Beryl No.1 & 2 ClaimsBeryllium, Mica, Niobium (Columbium), FeldsparPast Producer
ButchFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Cobalt Gold Mining CoNickel, GoldPast Producer
Copper King MineCobalt, Copper, NickelPast Producer1880, 1940
Copper King Nickel MineCobalt, Nickel, CopperPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Niccolite, Pentlandite, Pyrrhotite
Fairday MineUranium, Lead, Silver, Fluorine-FluoriteProducerGalena, Pitchblende, Pyrite
Gold Hill DistrictSilver, Lead, Zinc, Gold, TelluriumPast Producer1859
Goldsmith MaidGold, Lead, Silver, Uranium, ZincPast Producer
J AlbineGold, Silver, Zinc, LeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Boulder 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
Wallstreet1.2 miles28
Sunnyside1.4 miles28
Wheelman1.4 miles29
Sugarloaf1.5 miles28
Crisman1.5 miles29
Tall Timber1.7 miles29
Salina1.9 miles29
Silver Spruce2.2 miles29

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 Mountain MeadowsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6925109The 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 197810. 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.