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Arriba, Colorado

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Arriba census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80804. The Survey maps it on the Arriba quadrangle. 202 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,240 feet above sea level.

Arriba within Lincoln County

Population over time

2 figures

Arriba grew from 193 to 202 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
2010193
2020202+9 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Arriba in 2016, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined1

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
22 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHugo Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Arriba: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

54 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arriba in 54 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 44 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 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
September 1993HailArriba$5,000no account filed
September 1993Thunderstorm WindArriba$500no account filed
June 2025HailArriba-Report from mping.
August 2025HailArriba-The report was from mPING.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindArriba-Significant hail and wind damage was reported between Genoa and Arriba. Several semi-trailers were flipped. Several power poles also were also knocked down near the intersection of county roads 42 and 3P.
June 2023Tornado (EF0)Arriba-A tornado touched down briefly in open country. No damage was observed.
May 2021Tornado (EF0)Arriba-A tornado touched down in an open field. No damage was observed.
June 2008Tornado (EF0)Arriba-A small tornado touched down and caused minor damage.
June 2005Tornado (F0)Arriba-A tornado touched down briefly but did no damage.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindArriba-Strong thunderstorm winds ripped the doors off a barn.
May 1999Tornado (F0)Arriba-A tornado touched down briefly but did no damage.
May 1994HailArriba-,,,,0,0,0,3,Thunderstorm Winds (G61) Hail up to one-inch in diameter and thunderstorm winds to 70 mph (61 knots) occurred northwest of Arriba (22 miles east northeast of Limon), causing considerable crop damage.
August 2025HailArriba-no account filed
June 2023HailArriba-no account filed
May 2021HailArriba-no account filed
May 2018HailArriba-no account filed
July 2016HailArriba-no account filed
July 2016HailArriba-no account filed
June 2013HailArriba-no account filed
June 2011HailArriba-no account filed
June 2010HailArriba-no account filed
June 2010HailArriba-no account filed
June 2009HailArriba-no account filed
July 2009HailArriba-no account filed
June 2008HailArriba-no account filed
May 2007HailArriba-no account filed
May 2006HailArriba-no account filed
June 2005HailArriba-no account filed
June 2005HailArriba-no account filed
June 2005HailArriba-no account filed
July 2005HailArriba-no account filed
July 2005HailArriba-no account filed
August 2005HailArriba-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindArriba-no account filed
August 2004HailArriba-no account filed
August 2004HailArriba-no account filed
April 2003HailArriba-no account filed
August 2003HailArriba-no account filed
June 2002HailArriba-no account filed
June 2002HailArriba-no account filed
July 2000HailArriba-no account filed
July 2000HailArriba-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindArriba-no account filed
August 2000HailArriba-no account filed
May 1999HailArriba-no account filed
June 1998HailArriba-no account filed
May 1998HailArriba-no account filed
June 1997HailArriba-no account filed
May 1996HailArriba-no account filed
August 1996HailArriba-no account filed
July 1994HailArriba-no account filed
June 1994HailArriba-no account filed
June 1994HailArriba-no account filed
August 1993HailArriba-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Bovina5.8 miles8
Genoa11.9 miles15
Hugo14.6 miles8
Clifford17.2 miles9
Shaw18.8 miles8
Limon22.1 miles15
Boyero23.7 miles12
Wezel (historical)35.0 miles12

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 ArribaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2082274The 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 195110. 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.