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Saint Marys, Colorado

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Idaho Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80452. It lies near Anchor Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Empire quadrangle. 333 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10,079 feet above sea level.

Saint Marys within Clear Creek County

Population over time

2 figures

Saint Marys grew from 283 to 333 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
2010283
2020333+50 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Saint Marys between 1993 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. 7 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 ceremony10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural7
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
12 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandWHITE HORSE
8 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandMAD CREEK
6 August 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grasslandnot named
29 August 2015Naturalunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandCONQUERER
26 August 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandBROOMFIELD
25 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandST MARY'S
2 August 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandLAWSON
19 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreClear Creek County OfficeCCX 669

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clear Creek County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 360 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 360 workings within 5 miles of Saint Marys: 272 past producers, 47 occurrences, 30 producers, 9 unknowns. 31 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Lead. 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
AlphaGold, Silver, Lead, Copper, ZincPast Producer
American SistersGold, Copper, Lead, Zinc, SilverPast ProducerGalena, Sphalerite
AngelineGold, Lead, Zinc, Copper, SilverProducerVein
Atlantic & BrightonFluorine-FluoritePast ProducerUnderground
Bachus GroupGold, LeadPast ProducerUnderground
Bellevue-RochesterGold, Copper, Silver, Lead, Uranium, ZincPast ProducerGalena, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Uraninite
Bellview-HudsonGold, Silver, Lead, Copper, ZincProducerVein
Bellvue-Hudson GroupZinc, Lead, Silver, GoldProducerVein
Clear Creek & Gilpin TunnelGold, Copper, Silver, LeadPast ProducerGalena, Sphalerite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrite
CopenhagenGold, Silver, Zinc, Copper, LeadProducerVein

Every working recorded in Clear Creek 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
Alice0.3 miles29
Ninetyfour (historical)1.0 miles29
Yankee (historical)1.4 miles27
Lawson3.7 miles29
Downieville3.9 miles27
Empire4.3 miles29
Dumont4.4 miles27
Freeland5.7 miles28

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 Saint MarysAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2364236The 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 1852849. 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.