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.
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
- Redfeather Ranger Stationlisted 2023
Population over time
3 figuresRed 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 525 | |
| 2010 | 343 | -182 (-35%) |
| 2020 | 426 | +83 (+24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 17 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.
- 1916 USGS Home quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1920 USGS Home quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Red Feather Lakes quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Fort Collins quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
106 since 1992Regional 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 ceremony | 34 |
| Natural | 33 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | PARROTT |
| 8 September 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | not named |
| 8 September 1992 | Smoking | 1.5 acres | Larimer County | not named |
| 6 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | LOST |
| 5 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | ELKHORN |
| 4 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | CREEDMORE LAKES |
| 29 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.3 acres | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | SANTA CLARA |
| 26 September 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.9 acres | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | SWAMP LADY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manhattan District | Gold, Silver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Uranium | Past Producer | 1941 | |
| Rainbow Lode | Beryllium | Past Producer | ||
| Redfeather Pit | Quartz | Past Producer | ||
| Batterson Lode | Uranium | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Gold Coin Mine | Silver, Gold | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Lady Moon Mine | Uranium | Past Producer | 1964 | |
| Prodigal Mine | Silver, Gold | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Gravel | |
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Gravel |
Storms near this place
17 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2016 | Lightning | Red Feather Lakes | 1 killed | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Lightning | Red Feather Lakes | 1 hurt | Lightning struck and injured a man near Fox Acres. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Feather Lakes | - | Intense straight line winds downed power lines along county road 69. Over one thousand trees were downed near Red Feather Lakes. |
| September 2013 | Flash Flood | Red Feather Lakes | - | The combination of heavy rain, coupled with extremely saturated ground conditions, produced additional flash flooding. |
| August 2020 | Hail | Red Feather Lakes | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Hail | Red Feather Lakes | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Hail | Red Feather Lakes | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Red Feather Lakes | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Red Feather Lakes | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Red Feather Lakes | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Red Feather Lakes | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Red Feather Lakes | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Red Feather Lakes | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Red Feather Lakes | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Lightning | Red Feather Lakes | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Feather Lakes | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Feather Lakes | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goodell Corner | 4.7 miles | 17 | |
| Manhattan (historical) | 4.9 miles | 17 | |
| Rustic | 7.1 miles | 17 | |
| Glen Echo | 7.2 miles | 17 | |
| Indian Meadows | 7.3 miles | 17 | |
| Idylwilde | 7.8 miles | 20 | |
| Eggers | 9.5 miles | 21 | |
| Kinikinik | 9.9 miles | 20 |
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 Lakes | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2709906 | 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 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.









