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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.

Silver Plume within Clear Creek County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Silver 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.

YearPeople Change
2010170
2020207+37 (+22%)

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

29 since 1994

Regional 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 ceremony11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
5 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandWEST CHICAGO CREEK
28 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionBIG ROCK 2
26 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
24 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreClear Creek County OfficeCCX 884
23 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandTHREE CHIEFS
17 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
13 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandWEST CHICAGO CREEK
10 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandEVANS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clear Creek County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 215 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Anglo Saxon MineSilver, Gold, Copper, LeadOccurrenceVein
Anglo-Saxon MineGold, Silver, Lead, CopperPast ProducerVein
Baker MineGold, Fluorine-Fluorite, Silver, Copper, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Baker, StevensZinc, Lead, Silver, Gold, CopperProducerCopper, Gold, Lead, Silver
Bard Creek MineZinc, Gold, Lead, Silver, CopperOccurrenceLead, Silver
Capitol PrizeSilver, Gold, Lead, Copper, ZincProducer
Capitol PrizeGold, Copper, Zinc, Silver, LeadPast Producer
Colorado CentralSilver, Gold, Copper, Lead, ZincPast ProducerGalena, Pyrite, Chalcopyrite
Colorado Central MineZinc, Lead, Silver, Gold, CopperPast ProducerArgentite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Polybasite, Proustite, Pyrargyrite, Silver, Sphalerite, Stephanite, Tetrahedrite
Denver Granite and MarbleGranite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

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
Silverdale (historical)1.6 miles29
Georgetown1.7 miles29
Graymont4.0 miles31
Bakerville4.2 miles31
Empire5.0 miles29
Lamartine6.2 miles28
Berthoud Falls6.8 miles28
Lawson7.1 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 Silver PlumeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q965533The 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.