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Red Cliff, Colorado

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Minturn-Red Cliff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81649. It stands on Willow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Red Cliff quadrangle. 257 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 8,750 feet above sea level.

Red Cliff within Eagle County

On record in Red Cliff

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Red Cliff fell from 267 to 257 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
2010267
2020257-10 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Red Cliff between 1992 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 11 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
Recreation and ceremony34
Natural11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWhite River National ForestCLUTTER GARDEN
29 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined24 acresWhite River National ForestTWO ELK
23 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWhite River National ForestFOWLER HILIARD HUT
19 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWhite River National ForestMERIDIAN
12 September 2018Naturalunder an acreWhite River National ForestHOMESTAKE
12 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWhite River National ForestC.P.
11 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWhite River National ForestTWO ELK
10 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWhite River National ForestTIGIWON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eagle County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Red Cliff: 17 past producers, 10 producers, 8 occurrences. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, 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
EagleIron, Silver, GoldOccurrenceLimonite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Siderite, Turgite
EagleArsenicOccurrence
EagleZinc, Copper, LeadProducerBornite, Chalcanthite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Lead, Tetrahedrite
Eagle #2AluminumOccurrence
Eagle MineZinc, Silver, Copper, Lead, Gold, ManganesePast Producer1879
Gilman (Red Cliff) DistrictLead, Gold, Zinc, Silver, Copper, Manganese, IronPast ProducerAnglesite, Chalcopyrite, Cerargyrite, Cerussite, Galena, Hemimorphite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite, Psilomelane, Pyrolusite, Smithsonite
Homestake CreekPumicePast Producer
Iron MaskGold, Silver, Zinc, Manganese, LeadProducerReplacement
LibertyLead, Zinc, SilverOccurrence
Little SpringUranium, VanadiumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Eagle 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
Belden1.3 miles21
Gilman2.0 miles21
Astor City (historical)3.4 miles21
Pando4.2 miles33
Minturn6.1 miles21
Mid Vail7.1 miles21
Eagles Nest7.4 miles21
Dowds Junction7.9 miles21

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 Red CliffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1641909The 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 202362. 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.