Cedaredge, Colorado
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Cedaredge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81413. The Survey maps it on the Cedaredge quadrangle. 2,279 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,230 feet above sea level.
On record in Cedaredge
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 2 records
Stolte Houselisted 1997
Surface Creek Livestock Company Siloslisted 2000
Population over time
2 figuresCedaredge grew from 2,253 to 2,279 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 | 2,253 | |
| 2020 | 2,279 | +26 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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.
- 1956 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Cedaredge quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1968 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Paonia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
57 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Cedaredge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,993 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined | 20 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 16 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Southwest District, Montrose | COLBY |
| 29 September 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Cedaredge Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 28 August 2000 | Natural | 2.5 acres | Southwest District, Montrose | MCGRUDER |
| 11 August 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 10 August 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 9 July 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Cedaredge Fire Department | N/A |
| 7 July 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Cedaredge Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 6 July 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Cedaredge Fire Department | N/A |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Cedaredge: 3 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory), Stone, Dimension. 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 | Fire Clay (Refractory), Stone, Dimension | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Gravel | |
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Gravel |
Storms near this place
8 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedaredge in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 2 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2015 | Heavy Rain | Cedaredge | $10,000 | A blocked culvert and increased water flow due to recent rainfall near the confluence of Cow Creek and Leroux Creek caused a portion of County Road 3100 to wash out with localized flooding near Leroux Creek. |
| August 2003 | Flash Flood | Cedaredge | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Lightning | Cedaredge | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Flood | Cedaredge | $2,500 | Flooding on Surface Creek led to the closure of a recreational trail along the river, near Cedaredge, as the trail was washed out. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedaredge | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Heavy Rain | Cedaredge | - | A total of 1.25 inches of rain was measured within 90 minutes. |
| June 2000 | Hail | Cedaredge | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Funnel Cloud | Cedaredge | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colby | 3.3 miles | 14 | |
| Brimstone Corner | 3.6 miles | 14 | |
| Eckert | 4.5 miles | 14 | |
| Orchard City | 5.6 miles | 14 | |
| Payne | 7.0 miles | 14 | |
| Austin | 8.4 miles | 14 | |
| Cory | 8.5 miles | 14 | |
| Saxton | 9.5 miles | 14 |
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 Cedaredge | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2076330 | 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 186245. 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.





