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Mountain Village, Colorado

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Telluride census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81435. It stands on Eider Creek. The Survey maps it on the Telluride quadrangle. 1,264 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 9,547 feet above sea level.

Mountain Village within San Miguel County

Population over time

2 figures

Mountain Village fell from 1,320 to 1,264 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
20101,320
20201,264-56 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 29 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

35 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Mountain Village between 1994 and 2020, burning about 226 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined20
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
12 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersMOUNTAIN VILLAGE
10 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTelluride Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
4 August 2017Naturalunder an acreTelluride Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
27 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTelluride Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
24 August 2007Naturalunder an acreGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National ForestsPROSPECT BASIN
24 August 2007Naturalunder an acreGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National ForestsLIFT 6
23 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTelluride Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
5 July 2003Fireworksunder an acreGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National ForestsBEAR CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Miguel County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 117 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 117 workings within 5 miles of Mountain Village: 75 past producers, 32 unknowns, 7 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Silver, Lead. 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
Alta MineGold, Lead, Copper, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Animas AggregatesSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Black Hawk TunnelGold, Silver, CopperPast Producer
Blue Bird MineSilver, Gold, Lead, CopperPast Producer1977
Bradley MineSilver, Gold, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Carbonero MineLead, Zinc, Copper, Gold, SilverProducerSphalerite
Croziers ClaimsLead, ZincProspect
Deep Creek MineCalcium, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Deep Creek PlacerLimestone, GeneralPast Producer1968, 1975
Liberty Bell MillGold, Iron, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in San Miguel 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
San Miguel1.5 miles29
Keystone1.7 miles27
Ilium2.2 miles27
Vance Junction2.3 miles27
Telluride2.4 miles29
Alta (historical)3.1 miles29
Liberty Bell3.2 miles29
Pandora3.8 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 VillageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2275184The 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 1744606. 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.