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Cattle Creek, Colorado

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Glenwood Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81601. It stands on Cattle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cattle Creek quadrangle. 662 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,030 feet above sea level.

Cattle Creek within Garfield County

Population over time

2 figures

Cattle Creek grew from 641 to 662 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
2010641
2020662+21 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

120 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Cattle Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 581 acres in total. 45 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined55
Natural45
Recreation and ceremony9
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
5 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCarbondale & Rural Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCarbondale & Rural Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
30 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCarbondale & Rural Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
20 September 1995Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionONION RDG
14 September 2017Naturalunder an acreCarbondale & Rural Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
13 September 2005Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionRED CANYON
1 September 2011Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionCATTLE CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Garfield 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 Cattle Creek: 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand and Gravel
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Garfield County

Storms near this place

4 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cattle Creek in 4 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 3 debris flow, 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
August 2024Debris FlowCattle Creek-Colorado Department of Transportation reported a mudslide and subsequent road closure of Colorado State Highway 82 at approximately mile marker 11, or between Satank Road turn off and Colorado State Highway 133. The road was closed for roughly 2 hours, reopening by 00:15AM MDT, or 23:15 MST. Colorado State Highway 82 in the vicinity of Carbondale is known to be susceptible to flash flooding and mud and debris flows will heavy, intense rainfall.
October 2018Thunderstorm WindCattle Creek-An estimated peak wind gust of around 65 MPH blew down five trees, two of which were Cottonwoods about two-feet in diameter.
August 2017Debris FlowCattle Creek-A mudslide occurred on County Road 117 at mile marker 9 due to heavy rain from thunderstorms.
July 2013Debris FlowCattle Creek-Heavy rainfall induced a small mudslide which flowed across Highway 82 near mile marker 11.

Every storm recorded in Garfield 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
Kiggin2.5 miles16
Satank3.6 miles16
Cardiff4.2 miles22
Carbondale4.7 miles16
Mulford6.0 miles16
Catherine6.8 miles16
Glenwood Springs7.2 miles22
No Name7.3 miles22

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 Cattle CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5054097The 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 174822. 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.