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Steamboat Springs, Colorado

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Steamboat Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80487. It stands on Butcherknife Creek. The Survey maps it on the Steamboat Springs quadrangle. 13,224 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,732 feet above sea level.

Steamboat Springs within Routt County

On record in Steamboat Springs

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 12 records

Population over time

2 figures

Steamboat Springs grew from 12,088 to 13,224 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
201012,088
202013,224+1,136 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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

53 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Steamboat Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 76 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined21
Recreation and ceremony12
Natural10
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning2
Fireworks1

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
4 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSteamboat Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
3 September 2016Naturalunder an acreSteamboat Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
29 September 2015Smokingunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandFROLF
24 September 1998Debris and open burning15 acresMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandPIONEER
20 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandRAWS
18 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSteamboat Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
18 September 2016Smokingunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandHEAVENLY RUN
14 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSteamboat Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Routt County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Steamboat Springs: 9 past producers, 8 occurrences, 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Copper, Gold. 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
Soda CreekUranium, REEOccurrence
Steamboat SpringsGeothermalUnknown
UnknownClayOccurrence
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrenceSedimentary
Unknown QuarryStonePast Producer
Copper RidgeCopper, GoldOccurrence
Slate CreekCopper, GoldOccurrence
Fair-UUraniumOccurrence
Fair-U No. 1,2UraniumOccurrence
Hogue Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Routt County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Steamboat Springs in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1995Tornado (F0)Steamboat Springs-A short lived, but rare tornado downed a tree.

Every storm recorded in Routt 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
Steamboat II4.3 miles18
Mad Creek6.4 miles18
Milner10.0 miles19
Mystic10.5 miles18
McGregor10.8 miles19
Haybro12.5 miles12
Keystone14.5 miles12
Bear River (historical)15.1 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 Steamboat SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q984721The 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 172749. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.