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Williamsburg, Colorado

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Florence census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81226. It stands on South Oak Creek. The Survey maps it on the Canon City quadrangle. 731 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,390 feet above sea level.

Williamsburg within Fremont County

Population over time

2 figures

Williamsburg grew from 662 to 731 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
2010662
2020731+69 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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

374 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 374 fires within 5 miles of Williamsburg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 102 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined332
Natural8
Smoking8
Recreation and ceremony8
Debris and open burning7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
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
9 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCanon City Area Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
4 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
30 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
26 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
24 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCanon City Area Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
2 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
2 September 2013Naturalunder an acreWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 48 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 48 workings within 5 miles of Williamsburg: 24 producers, 19 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 plant. 25 still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Canon City DepositIronOccurrenceLimonite, Siderite
Horse Shoe & El PlomaLead, Copper, Gold, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Oak CreekFeldspar, MicaProducer
White King, State RockSilicaProducer
Florence Perlite MillPerliteProducer
PersolitePerliteProducer
Unidentified Placer OccurrenceGoldOccurrencePlacer
Unidentified Placer OccurrenceGoldOccurrencePlacer
Chandler CreekStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
FremontStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Williamsburg in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2020: 3 hail, 1 dust devil. 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 2012Dust DevilWilliamsburg$3,000no account filed
July 2020HailWilliamsburg-Hail estimated at 1 to 1.25 inches. Estimated from picture posted on social media. Windows were also broken out.
August 2009HailWilliamsburg-no account filed
August 2009HailWilliamsburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fremont 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
Rockvale1.1 miles23
Coal Creek1.4 miles23
Florence1.9 miles24
Chandler (historical)2.6 miles23
Brookside3.1 miles24
Lincoln Park4.9 miles24
Prospect Heights5.5 miles24
East Canon5.9 miles24

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 WilliamsburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2425109The 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 203567. 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.