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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.

Silverthorne within Summit County

Population over time

2 figures

Silverthorne 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.

YearPeople Change
20103,887
20204,402+515 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

237 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined143
Recreation and ceremony43
Natural17
Arson/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Fireworks3

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 2018Naturalunder an acreWhite River National ForestFREY GULCH
9 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWhite River National ForestLOWRY
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLake Dillon Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
8 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWhite River National ForestWATERLINE
8 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWhite River National ForestPROSPECTOR
8 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWhite River National ForestMT ROYAL
7 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLake Dillon Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Frey Placer ClaimsGold, Copper, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
FriscoGold, Copper, Silver, Zinc, LeadPast Producer
Skookum MineVanadiumPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSedimentary
UnknownFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Blue River PlacersGoldOccurrencePlacer
Buffalo PlacersGoldOccurrencePlacer
Soda Gulch PlacersGoldOccurrence
UnknownGoldOccurrenceGold, Pyrite

Every working recorded in Summit 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
Dillon1.6 miles16
Frisco4.2 miles17
Masontown4.7 miles17
Keystone5.1 miles33
Gold Hill6.2 miles17
Peak Seven West9.1 miles31
Copper Mountain9.4 miles19
Wheeler Junction9.4 miles19

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 SilverthorneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1019278The 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.