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Atwood, Colorado

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Merino census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80722. The Survey maps it on the Atwood quadrangle. 138 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,993 feet above sea level.

Atwood within Logan County

Population over time

2 figures

Atwood grew from 133 to 138 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
2010133
2020138+5 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

57 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Atwood between 2006 and 2020, burning about 3,314 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined35
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural3
Smoking1
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
6 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use35 acresSterling Fire RescueUNKNOWN
21 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSterling Fire RescueN/A
14 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSterling Fire RescueUNKNOWN
9 August 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMerino Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
31 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSterling Fire RescueUNKNOWN
30 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMerino Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
7 July 2013Naturalunder an acreSterling Fire RescueUNKNOWN
4 July 2016Fireworksunder an acreSterling Fire RescueUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Atwood: 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. 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, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand

Every working recorded in Logan County

Storms near this place

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Atwood in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 14 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1997Flash FloodAtwood$12,900,000Monsoon moisture continued over the area with thunderstorms drenching the Pawnee National Grasslands, north of Stoneham, with 6 to 8 inches of rainfall. Runoff from the storms eventually turned Pawnee Creek into a huge river. The wall of water, 12 feet high and 200 feet wide made its way downstream flooding the towns of Sterling and Atwood in western Logan County. Highway bridges were washed out, trees uprooted and a portion of Burlington Northern track ripped out. In addition, a 100-ton culvert was torn away and carried downstream approximately 50 feet. In Logan County, 1000 homes and 200 businesses were impacted by the floodwaters as scores of families were evacuated. Some homes in the towns of Sterling and Atwood were under 8 feet of water. At least 13,700 acres of cropland was damaged. Damage estimates of at least $12.9 million were reported to property. A breakdown of the damages included: $10.0 million to homes in Sterling alone, $900,000 to businesses, $1.0 million to a junior college, and at least $1.0 million in damage to state roads, highways and bridges.
July 2017Flash FloodAtwood$20,000Doppler radar estimated at least 3 inches of rain had fallen southwest of Sterling. |There were numerous reports of low-land flooding in and around Merino. Water flooded, basements, businesses and the post office with around one inch of standing water. |Several rural county roads were damaged by the runoff from flooded fields.
May 2025HailAtwood-Report from Mping.
May 2025HailAtwood-Report from Mping.
May 2025HailAtwood-Report from Mping.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindAtwood-Strong winds caused some roof damage.
June 2022HailAtwood-no account filed
May 2021HailAtwood-no account filed
July 2020HailAtwood-no account filed
May 2018HailAtwood-no account filed
June 2010HailAtwood-no account filed
June 2008HailAtwood-no account filed
August 2008HailAtwood-no account filed
April 2007HailAtwood-no account filed
April 2007HailAtwood-no account filed
June 2004HailAtwood-no account filed
July 1998HailAtwood-no account filed
June 1997Tornado (F0)Atwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
Logan5.2 miles9
Merino6.2 miles9
Sterling6.3 miles9
Twin Mills7.8 miles9
Beta8.1 miles10
Willard11.5 miles8
Ford13.7 miles9
Jessica15.6 miles7

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 AtwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2097555The 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 182793. 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.