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Avon, Colorado

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Minturn-Red Cliff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81620. It stands on Beaver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Edwards quadrangle. 6,072 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,431 feet above sea level.

Avon within Eagle County

Population over time

2 figures

Avon fell from 6,447 to 6,072 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
20106,447
20206,072-375 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

102 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Avon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 148 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined37
Natural27
Recreation and ceremony23
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1
Smoking1

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 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWhite River National ForestRADIO TOWER
7 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWhite River National ForestAVON
5 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWhite River National ForestDAVOS
5 September 1992Arson/incendiarism25 acresEagle Countynot named
4 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresEagle Countynot named
4 September 1992Railroad operations and maintenance28 acresWhite River National Forestnot named
25 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
23 September 2014Naturalunder an acreWhite River National ForestMETCALF CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eagle 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 Avon: 4 occurrences, 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, Gypsum-Anhydrite, 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
AvonGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
B & B Edwards PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lake Cr.GoldOccurrencePlacer
UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceSedimentary
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand and Gravel
Ute Park, High Line, Blue JayGoldOccurrencePlacer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Eagle County

Storms near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Avon in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 4 debris flow, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 2019FloodAvon1 killedA raft carrying five young men down the Eagle River flipped when it hit a tall wave and a hole on the other side of the river near Eagle-Vail. As a result, all five passengers were thrown into the raging river. Four managed to scramble up the bank to safety while one was swept away and eventually passed away.
July 2021Debris FlowAvon$500,000Nottingham Road west of Buck Creek Road in Avon was closed for several hours after multiple mudslides occurred as a result of heavy rains.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindAvon$2,000no account filed
June 2018Debris FlowAvon-Heavy rainfall caused a mud to flow across the westbound lane of Interstate 70 at the Avon Exit 167. That portion of I-70 was closed for about 50 minutes until the debris was removed. Radar estimated storm total rainfall was up to 0.50 of an inch in less than an hour.
July 2016Debris FlowAvon-A debris flow of rocks and mud came down onto Nottingham Road in Avon.
September 2013Debris FlowAvon-A mudslide at mile marker 154 closed Highway 6 for several hours in both directions.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindAvon-A severe thunderstorm wind gust was reported by a trained spotter near Avon.
October 2000Thunderstorm WindAvon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Eagle 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
Bachelor Gulch Village1.3 miles13
Beaver Creek Village1.9 miles13
Arrowhead Village2.4 miles16
Edwards3.9 miles16
Dowds Junction4.3 miles21
West Vail5.7 miles19
Minturn5.8 miles21
Carterville6.6 miles14

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 AvonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2069422The 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 204667. 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.