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Red Feather Lakes, Colorado

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Livermore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80545. The Survey maps it on the Red Feather Lakes quadrangle. 426 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,890 feet above sea level.

Red Feather Lakes within Larimer County

On record in Red Feather Lakes

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

3 figures

Red Feather Lakes fell from 525 to 426 between 2000 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
2000525
2010343-182 (-35%)
2020426+83 (+24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Red Feather Lakes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 83 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 2 were 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
Natural33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks2
Debris and open burning1

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
8 September 1998Naturalunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandPARROTT
8 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grasslandnot named
8 September 1992Smoking1.5 acresLarimer Countynot named
6 September 2013Naturalunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandLOST
5 September 2000Naturalunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandELKHORN
4 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandCREEDMORE LAKES
29 September 2019Recreation and ceremony1.3 acresArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandSANTA CLARA
26 September 2005Recreation and ceremony1.9 acresArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandSWAMP LADY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Larimer County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Red Feather Lakes: 5 occurrences, 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Quartz. 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
Manhattan DistrictGold, Silver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, UraniumPast Producer1941
Rainbow LodeBerylliumPast Producer
Redfeather PitQuartzPast Producer
Batterson LodeUraniumOccurrenceVein
Gold Coin MineSilver, GoldOccurrenceVein
Lady Moon MineUraniumPast Producer1964
Prodigal MineSilver, GoldOccurrenceVein
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Larimer County

Storms near this place

17 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Red Feather Lakes in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 10 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 lightning, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2016LightningRed Feather Lakes1 killedno account filed
August 2003LightningRed Feather Lakes1 hurtLightning struck and injured a man near Fox Acres.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindRed Feather Lakes-Intense straight line winds downed power lines along county road 69. Over one thousand trees were downed near Red Feather Lakes.
September 2013Flash FloodRed Feather Lakes-The combination of heavy rain, coupled with extremely saturated ground conditions, produced additional flash flooding.
August 2020HailRed Feather Lakes-no account filed
August 2020HailRed Feather Lakes-no account filed
August 2020HailRed Feather Lakes-no account filed
July 2010HailRed Feather Lakes-no account filed
July 2010HailRed Feather Lakes-no account filed
July 2006HailRed Feather Lakes-no account filed
May 2004HailRed Feather Lakes-no account filed
April 2003HailRed Feather Lakes-no account filed
September 1999HailRed Feather Lakes-no account filed
May 1998HailRed Feather Lakes-no account filed
August 1996LightningRed Feather Lakes-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindRed Feather Lakes-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindRed Feather Lakes-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Larimer 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
Goodell Corner4.7 miles17
Manhattan (historical)4.9 miles17
Rustic7.1 miles17
Glen Echo7.2 miles17
Indian Meadows7.3 miles17
Idylwilde7.8 miles20
Eggers9.5 miles21
Kinikinik9.9 miles20

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 Feather LakesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2709906The 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 170220. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.