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Phippsburg, Colorado

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Oak Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80469. It stands on Whipple Creek. The Survey maps it on the Yampa quadrangle. 234 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,438 feet above sea level.

Phippsburg within Routt County

Population over time

2 figures

Phippsburg grew from 204 to 234 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
2010204
2020234+30 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 13 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

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Phippsburg between 1994 and 2020, burning about 14 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
Natural6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
26 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNorthwest District, CraigGUN RANGE
26 August 2008Naturalunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandLOWRY
10 August 2000Natural5.0 acresNorthwest District, CraigENERGY
25 July 1994Natural1.0 acresRoutt Countynot named
14 July 1994Natural2.0 acresRoutt Countynot named
18 June 2012Natural1.0 acresMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandPINE GROVE
1 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOak Creek Fire Protection DistrictN/A
14 May 2015Naturalunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandPINEGROVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Routt County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Phippsburg: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Routt 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
Oak Creek3.1 miles12
Keystone4.9 miles12
Yampa5.8 miles13
Haybro7.0 miles12
Trapper9.5 miles14
Toponas13.9 miles14
Dunckley14.1 miles20
McGregor17.7 miles19

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 PhippsburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7186425The 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 173063. 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.