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.
Population over time
2 figuresPhippsburg 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 204 | |
| 2020 | 234 | +30 (+15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 13 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.
- 1954 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Yampa quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Steamboat Springs quadrangle1:100000
- 2000 USGS Yampa quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
8 since 1994Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Northwest District, Craig | GUN RANGE |
| 26 August 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | LOWRY |
| 10 August 2000 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Northwest District, Craig | ENERGY |
| 25 July 1994 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Routt County | not named |
| 14 July 1994 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Routt County | not named |
| 18 June 2012 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | PINE GROVE |
| 1 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Oak Creek Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 14 May 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | PINEGROVE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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.
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 Phippsburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7186425 | 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 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.









