Silverthorne, Colorado
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Silverthorne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80498. It stands on Straight Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dillon quadrangle. 4,402 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 9,035 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSilverthorne grew from 3,887 to 4,402 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 | 3,887 | |
| 2020 | 4,402 | +515 (+13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 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.
- 1929 USGS Dillon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1934 USGS Dillon quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Dillon quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Vail quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
237 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 237 fires within 5 miles of Silverthorne between 1992 and 2020, burning about 188 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined | 143 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 43 |
| Natural | 17 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2018 | Natural | under an acre | White River National Forest | FREY GULCH |
| 9 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | White River National Forest | LOWRY |
| 8 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Lake Dillon Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 8 September 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | White River National Forest | WATERLINE |
| 8 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | White River National Forest | PROSPECTOR |
| 8 September 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | White River National Forest | MT ROYAL |
| 7 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Lake Dillon Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 7 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
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 Silverthorne: 6 occurrences, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frey Placer Claims | Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Frisco | Gold, Copper, Silver, Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Skookum Mine | Vanadium | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Unknown | Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | ||
| Blue River Placers | Gold | Occurrence | Placer | |
| Buffalo Placers | Gold | Occurrence | Placer | |
| Soda Gulch Placers | Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Gold | Occurrence | Gold, Pyrite |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dillon | 1.6 miles | 16 | |
| Frisco | 4.2 miles | 17 | |
| Masontown | 4.7 miles | 17 | |
| Keystone | 5.1 miles | 33 | |
| Gold Hill | 6.2 miles | 17 | |
| Peak Seven West | 9.1 miles | 31 | |
| Copper Mountain | 9.4 miles | 19 | |
| Wheeler Junction | 9.4 miles | 19 |
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 Silverthorne | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1019278 | 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 204668. 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.








