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Rollinsville, Colorado

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Central City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80474. It lies near Gamble Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Nederland quadrangle. 194 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 8,474 feet above sea level.

Rollinsville within Gilpin County

On record in Rollinsville

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

Rollinsville grew from 181 to 194 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
2010181
2020194+13 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 29 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

230 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 230 fires within 5 miles of Rollinsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,172 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined140
Recreation and ceremony45
Natural17
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Debris and open burning3
Fireworks2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1

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
9 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNederland Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
8 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandSITE 11 FIRE
8 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNederland Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNederland Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNederland Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
7 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland925A
7 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland355C

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gilpin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 260 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 260 workings within 5 miles of Rollinsville: 165 past producers, 68 occurrences, 21 producers, 3 unknowns. 22 still produce. What was taken out: Tungsten, Gold, Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc. 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
Big MoonGold, Silver, LeadPast Producer
Blue Vein, Winnebago, Campania, DeadwoodGold, TungstenOccurrenceGold
Boulder Co. MineSilver, Gold, Tungsten, LeadOccurrenceVein
Clark TunnelTungsten, Silver, GoldUnknown
Cougar, GreybackMolybdenum, TungstenOccurrenceMolybdenite
Dory HillIron, Niobium (Columbium), Mica, Quartz, FeldsparOccurrenceColumbite, Feldspar, Magnetite, Mica, Quartz
Ellis LodeGold, Garnet, Copper, Silver, ZincPast Producer
FairheavenEmery, SilverPast Producer
Golden FlintGold, Lead, Silver, ZincPast ProducerPyrite
Lucky Strike, Last NickelTungsten, Lead, ZincProducerFerberite, Galena

Every working recorded in Gilpin County

Storms near this place

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rollinsville in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 4 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 1994HailRollinsville-Hail covered ground 2-3 inches deep in and near Rollinsville.
August 2025HailRollinsville-no account filed
August 2002HailRollinsville-no account filed
August 2002HailRollinsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gilpin 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
Gilpin1.9 miles29
Pactolus1.9 miles25
Phoenix (historical)2.0 miles29
Lincoln Hills2.3 miles25
Perigo (historical)3.1 miles29
Pinecliffe4.0 miles25
Baltimore (historical)4.0 miles29
Tolland4.7 miles29

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 RollinsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7361279The 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 202787. 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.