Silver Plume, Colorado
29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Georgetown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80476. It stands on Cherokee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Georgetown quadrangle. 207 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 9,101 feet above sea level.
On record in Silver Plume
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 2 records
Lebanon and Everett Mine Tunnelslisted 1971
Silver Plume Depotlisted 1971
Population over time
2 figuresSilver Plume grew from 170 to 207 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 | 170 | |
| 2020 | 207 | +37 (+22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 29 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.
- 1903 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1957 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
- 1958 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Denver West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
29 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Silver Plume between 1994 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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 | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | WEST CHICAGO CREEK |
| 28 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Northwest District, Grand Junction | BIG ROCK 2 |
| 26 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 24 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Clear Creek County Office | CCX 884 |
| 23 September 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | THREE CHIEFS |
| 17 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 13 September 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | WEST CHICAGO CREEK |
| 10 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | EVANS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 215 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 215 workings within 5 miles of Silver Plume: 160 past producers, 28 producers, 23 occurrences, 3 unknowns. 28 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Lead, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anglo Saxon Mine | Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Anglo-Saxon Mine | Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Baker Mine | Gold, Fluorine-Fluorite, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Baker, Stevens | Zinc, Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper | Producer | Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver | |
| Bard Creek Mine | Zinc, Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper | Occurrence | Lead, Silver | |
| Capitol Prize | Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper, Zinc | Producer | ||
| Capitol Prize | Gold, Copper, Zinc, Silver, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Colorado Central | Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | Galena, Pyrite, Chalcopyrite | |
| Colorado Central Mine | Zinc, Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | Argentite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Polybasite, Proustite, Pyrargyrite, Silver, Sphalerite, Stephanite, Tetrahedrite | |
| Denver Granite and Marble | Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silverdale (historical) | 1.6 miles | 29 | |
| Georgetown | 1.7 miles | 29 | |
| Graymont | 4.0 miles | 31 | |
| Bakerville | 4.2 miles | 31 | |
| Empire | 5.0 miles | 29 | |
| Lamartine | 6.2 miles | 28 | |
| Berthoud Falls | 6.8 miles | 28 | |
| Lawson | 7.1 miles | 29 |
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 Silver Plume | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q965533 | 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 181905. 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.








