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Ault, Colorado

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Ault census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80610. The Survey maps it on the Eaton quadrangle. 1,887 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,938 feet above sea level.

Ault within Weld County

Population over time

2 figures

Ault grew from 1,519 to 1,887 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
20101,519
20201,887+368 (+24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

151 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Ault between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,275 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined106
Smoking16
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks2
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,000 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
26 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAult-Pierce Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
23 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWeld Countynot named
17 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAult-Pierce Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
8 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
4 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAult-Pierce Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
31 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
30 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAult-Pierce Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Weld County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Ault: 5 producers, 4 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Great Western Sugar CoIronProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Weld County

Storms near this place

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ault in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 11 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 2024Flash FloodAult-Water was running over Weld County Road 29. The water depth was 10 to 12 inches and spanned 75 yards.
July 2007Tornado (EF0)Ault-A small tornado touched down but did no damage.
August 2020HailAult-no account filed
August 2019HailAult-no account filed
August 2019HailAult-no account filed
July 2016HailAult-no account filed
July 2016HailAult-no account filed
July 2016HailAult-no account filed
July 2015HailAult-no account filed
August 2013HailAult-no account filed
August 2004HailAult-no account filed
September 2000HailAult-no account filed
July 1996HailAult-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Weld 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
Stage2.1 miles18
Gates3.7 miles17
Eaton3.8 miles18
Pierce3.9 miles15
Hurrich4.8 miles17
Lucerne7.1 miles21
Severance7.5 miles17
Purcell7.9 miles16

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 AultAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q153628The 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 180544. 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.