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Valmont, Colorado

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Boulder census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80301. It stands on Valmont Butte. The Survey maps it on the Niwot quadrangle. 64 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,180 feet above sea level.

Valmont within Boulder County

Population over time

2 figures

Valmont grew from 59 to 64 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
201059
202064+5 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 26 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

934 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 934 fires within 5 miles of Valmont between 1992 and 2020, burning about 795 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 25 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/undetermined747
Equipment and vehicle use47
Smoking42
Arson/incendiarism25
Recreation and ceremony19
Natural17
Debris and open burning13
Fireworks9
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Other causes2

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 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresBoulder Fire Rescue DepartmentUNKNOWN
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBoulder Fire Rescue DepartmentUNKNOWN
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBoulder Fire Rescue DepartmentUNKNOWN
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBoulder Fire Rescue DepartmentUNKNOWN
8 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBoulder Fire Rescue DepartmentUNKNOWN
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBoulder Fire Rescue DepartmentN/A
6 September 2020Smokingunder an acreBoulder Fire Rescue DepartmentN/A
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRocky Mountain Fire Protection DistrictN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boulder County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 62 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 62 workings within 5 miles of Valmont: 37 past producers, 14 producers, 11 occurrences. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Buckskin Joe No 1Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Copper King Nickel MineNickelPast Producer
East BostonGold, Copper, Silver, LeadPast Producer
Fox Hills OutcropCoal, UraniumPast Producer
Gold Hill Beryl Claims (unverifiable)BerylliumPast Producer
Lewis LodeBituminous, UraniumPast Producer
Marshal Or Langford Surface IronIronProducerLimonite, Siderite
OklahomaGold, Lead, Silver, TungstenPast Producer
Tri StateFlagstonePast Producer
UnknownGold, SilverOccurrenceGold, Silver

Every working recorded in Boulder County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Valmont in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2014: 2 hail. 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
July 2014HailValmont-no account filed
April 2007HailValmont-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boulder 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
Boulder Junction1.1 miles26
Ara2.0 miles29
Gunbarrel2.7 miles26
Boulder3.2 miles29
Paragon Estates4.0 miles25
Liggett4.4 miles26
Seven Hills5.2 miles29
Marshall5.3 miles25

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 ValmontAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5851426The 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 178716. 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.