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Collbran, Colorado

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Collbran census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81624. It stands on Buzzard Creek. The Survey maps it on the Collbran quadrangle. 369 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,984 feet above sea level.

Collbran within Mesa County

Population over time

2 figures

Collbran fell from 708 to 369 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
2010708
2020369-339 (-48%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Collbran between 1992 and 2017, burning about 314 acres in total. 40 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
Natural40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

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
29 September 2002Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionSMALLEY GU
21 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
2 September 2001Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionSMALLEY GL
15 September 2016Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionHAWXHURST
10 September 2001Natural20 acresNorthwest District, Grand JunctionCLOVER
1 September 2007Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionMESA ASSIST 14
6 August 2017Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionMONTANA
6 August 2005Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionWEST FORK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mesa County

Storms near this place

7 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Collbran in 7 storm reports between 2004 and 2021: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2021Debris FlowCollbran$5,000Rocks, mud and water were found along Main Street in Collbran as a result of heavy rains. Sandbags were placed in front of certain businesses. Additionally, two trees were uprooted due to flash flooding along Highway 330.
May 2020HailCollbran-A severe thunderstorm produced large hail estimated to be the size of quarters east-northeast of Collbran.
May 2020HailCollbran-A severe thunderstorm produced large hail estimated to be the size of quarters north of Collbran.
September 2007Heavy RainCollbran-Mud and water flowed onto Highway 65 near Plateau Creek.
July 2006Flash FloodCollbran-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindCollbran-no account filed
July 2004HailCollbran-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mesa 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
Plateau City1.1 miles13
Molina6.3 miles15
Heiberger8.6 miles12
Mesa10.7 miles16
John Held Corner11.7 miles16
Mesa Lakes14.9 miles16
Mesa Lakes Resort14.9 miles16
De Beque14.9 miles17

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 CollbranAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2040298The 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 204663. 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.

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.