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.
Population over time
2 figuresCattle 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 641 | |
| 2020 | 662 | +21 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1957 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Cattle Creek quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
- 1962 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
120 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 55 |
| Natural | 45 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 5 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 30 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 30 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 20 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Grand Junction | ONION RDG |
| 14 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 13 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Grand Junction | RED CANYON |
| 1 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Grand Junction | CATTLE CREEK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Sand and Gravel | |
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 2013Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2024 | Debris Flow | Cattle 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 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cattle 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 2017 | Debris Flow | Cattle Creek | - | A mudslide occurred on County Road 117 at mile marker 9 due to heavy rain from thunderstorms. |
| July 2013 | Debris Flow | Cattle Creek | - | Heavy rainfall induced a small mudslide which flowed across Highway 82 near mile marker 11. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kiggin | 2.5 miles | 16 | |
| Satank | 3.6 miles | 16 | |
| Cardiff | 4.2 miles | 22 | |
| Carbondale | 4.7 miles | 16 | |
| Mulford | 6.0 miles | 16 | |
| Catherine | 6.8 miles | 16 | |
| Glenwood Springs | 7.2 miles | 22 | |
| No Name | 7.3 miles | 22 |
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 Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5054097 | The 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.






