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.
Population over time
2 figuresArriba 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 193 | |
| 2020 | 202 | +9 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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 Limon quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Limon quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Limon quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Arriba quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Limon quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2016Regional 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/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Hugo Volunteer Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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.
Storms near this place
54 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1993 | Hail | Arriba | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arriba | $500 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Hail | Arriba | - | Report from mping. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Arriba | - | The report was from mPING. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arriba | - | 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 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Arriba | - | A tornado touched down briefly in open country. No damage was observed. |
| May 2021 | Tornado (EF0) | Arriba | - | A tornado touched down in an open field. No damage was observed. |
| June 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Arriba | - | A small tornado touched down and caused minor damage. |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Arriba | - | A tornado touched down briefly but did no damage. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arriba | - | Strong thunderstorm winds ripped the doors off a barn. |
| May 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Arriba | - | A tornado touched down briefly but did no damage. |
| May 1994 | Hail | Arriba | - | ,,,,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 2025 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Hail | Arriba | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Arriba | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2082274 | 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 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.




