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Avondale, Colorado

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Avondale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81022. It stands on Chico Creek. The Survey maps it on the Avondale quadrangle. 594 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,557 feet above sea level.

Avondale within Pueblo County

On record in Avondale

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Avondale fell from 674 to 594 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
2010674
2020594-80 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

39 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Avondale between 2011 and 2020, burning about 849 acres 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/undetermined33
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePueblo Rural Fire DistrictUNKNOWN
30 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePueblo Rural Fire DistrictUNKNOWN
3 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePueblo Rural Fire DistrictUNKNOWN
26 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePueblo Rural Fire DistrictUNKNOWN
2 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePueblo Rural Fire DistrictUNKNOWN
26 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePueblo Rural Fire DistrictN/A
23 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePueblo Rural Fire DistrictUNKNOWN
5 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePueblo Rural Fire DistrictUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pueblo County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Avondale: 3 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSedimentary
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Pueblo County

Storms near this place

17 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Avondale in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 11 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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
August 1995HailAvondale$250,00019,0300MST Slow moving thunderstorms with rain estimates of 4-5 inches and a lot of small hail resulted in extensive crop damage. Several roads were also washed out.
August 2024HailAvondale-A public source reported hail of 1.5 inches in diameter.
July 2021Heavy RainAvondale-Heavy rainfall of 3.00 inches.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindAvondale-Reports and photos of downed trees were taken in the town of Avondale. Time was estimated.
July 2021HailAvondale-Golf ball to baseball size hail.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindAvondale-Five empty rail cars were flipped. Power lines were down.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindAvondale-Power Poles were knocked completely over, with excessive tree damage noted in the area.
July 2014FloodAvondale-The Arkansas River at Avondale went above flood stage, causing agricultural flooding.
August 2018HailAvondale-no account filed
August 2013Flash FloodAvondale-no account filed
May 2010HailAvondale-no account filed
June 2009HailAvondale-no account filed
May 2007HailAvondale-no account filed
June 2005HailAvondale-no account filed
June 2004HailAvondale-no account filed
June 1997HailAvondale-no account filed
May 1995HailAvondale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pueblo 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
North Avondale1.7 miles20
Fort Reynolds2.6 miles19
Nyberg3.3 miles20
Boone5.0 miles19
Vineland5.8 miles17
Devine6.2 miles20
Baxter7.9 miles20
Lombard Village10.3 miles23

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 AvondaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2534238The 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 204801. 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.