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.
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
Chamber of Commerce Buildinglisted 2010
Christian Science Society Buildinglisted 2007
Crawford Houselisted 2005
First National Bank Buildinglisted 2001
Maxwell Buildinglisted 1995
Mesa Schoolhouselisted 2007
Routt County National Bank Buildinglisted 2002
Steamboat Apartmentslisted 2011
Steamboat Laundry Buildinglisted 2007
Steamboat Springs Depotlisted 1978- Perry-Mansfield School of Theatre and Dancelisted 1995
- Steamboat Springs Downtown Historic Districtlisted 2014
Population over time
2 figuresSteamboat 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 12,088 | |
| 2020 | 13,224 | +1,136 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 12 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.
- 1954 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Steamboat Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Steamboat Springs quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
53 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 21 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Steamboat Springs Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 3 September 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Steamboat Springs Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 29 September 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | FROLF |
| 24 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | PIONEER |
| 20 September 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | RAWS |
| 18 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Steamboat Springs Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 18 September 2016 | Smoking | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | HEAVENLY RUN |
| 14 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Steamboat Springs Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 21 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soda Creek | Uranium, REE | Occurrence | ||
| Steamboat Springs | Geothermal | Unknown | ||
| Unknown | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Unknown Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Copper Ridge | Copper, Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Slate Creek | Copper, Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Fair-U | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Fair-U No. 1,2 | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Hogue Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Steamboat Springs | - | A short lived, but rare tornado downed a tree. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steamboat II | 4.3 miles | 18 | |
| Mad Creek | 6.4 miles | 18 | |
| Milner | 10.0 miles | 19 | |
| Mystic | 10.5 miles | 18 | |
| McGregor | 10.8 miles | 19 | |
| Haybro | 12.5 miles | 12 | |
| Keystone | 14.5 miles | 12 | |
| Bear River (historical) | 15.1 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 Steamboat Springs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q984721 | 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 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.








