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.
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
Red Cliff Bridgelisted 1985
Population over time
2 figuresRed 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 267 | |
| 2020 | 257 | -10 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 21 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.
- 1934 USGS Minturn quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1950 USGS Minturn quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Red Cliff quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1980 USGS Vail quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
61 since 1992Regional 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 ceremony | 34 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | White River National Forest | CLUTTER GARDEN |
| 29 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 acres | White River National Forest | TWO ELK |
| 23 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | White River National Forest | FOWLER HILIARD HUT |
| 19 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | White River National Forest | MERIDIAN |
| 12 September 2018 | Natural | under an acre | White River National Forest | HOMESTAKE |
| 12 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | White River National Forest | C.P. |
| 11 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | White River National Forest | TWO ELK |
| 10 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | White River National Forest | TIGIWON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 35 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eagle | Iron, Silver, Gold | Occurrence | Limonite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Siderite, Turgite | |
| Eagle | Arsenic | Occurrence | ||
| Eagle | Zinc, Copper, Lead | Producer | Bornite, Chalcanthite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Lead, Tetrahedrite | |
| Eagle #2 | Aluminum | Occurrence | ||
| Eagle Mine | Zinc, Silver, Copper, Lead, Gold, Manganese | Past Producer | 1879 | |
| Gilman (Red Cliff) District | Lead, Gold, Zinc, Silver, Copper, Manganese, Iron | Past Producer | Anglesite, Chalcopyrite, Cerargyrite, Cerussite, Galena, Hemimorphite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite, Psilomelane, Pyrolusite, Smithsonite | |
| Homestake Creek | Pumice | Past Producer | ||
| Iron Mask | Gold, Silver, Zinc, Manganese, Lead | Producer | Replacement | |
| Liberty | Lead, Zinc, Silver | Occurrence | ||
| Little Spring | Uranium, Vanadium | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belden | 1.3 miles | 21 | |
| Gilman | 2.0 miles | 21 | |
| Astor City (historical) | 3.4 miles | 21 | |
| Pando | 4.2 miles | 33 | |
| Minturn | 6.1 miles | 21 | |
| Mid Vail | 7.1 miles | 21 | |
| Eagles Nest | 7.4 miles | 21 | |
| Dowds Junction | 7.9 miles | 21 |
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 Cliff | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1641909 | 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 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.








