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Crawford, Colorado

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Hotchkiss census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81415. It lies near Youngs Peak. The Survey maps it on the Crawford quadrangle. 403 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,558 feet above sea level.

Crawford within Delta County

Population over time

2 figures

Crawford fell from 431 to 403 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
2010431
2020403-28 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

53 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Crawford between 1993 and 2020, burning about 898 acres in total. 37 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
Natural37
Smoking6
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 1994Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseYOUNG
9 September 1994Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseYOUTH
9 September 1994Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseASPEN
9 September 1994Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseFLATS
9 September 1994Naturalunder an acreGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forestsnot named
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseYOUNG
5 September 2000Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseC HILL
27 September 2002Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseFRUITLAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delta County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Crawford: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. 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
Silver LinkUraniumPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Delta County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crawford in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2012: 3 heavy rain, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2012Heavy RainCrawford-Over 0.75 inches of rain fell within an hour from a thunderstorm that moved between Paonia and Crawford Reservoir.
July 2009Funnel CloudCrawford-A large funnel cloud formed just south of Crawford and was photographed by a person about 10 miles away in Hotchkiss.
July 2006Heavy RainCrawford-no account filed
August 2003HailCrawford-no account filed
July 1998Heavy RainCrawford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delta 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
Hotchkiss8.8 miles13
Coburn10.0 miles13
Lazear10.6 miles17
Rogers Mesa11.1 miles17
Paonia11.4 miles15
Bowie15.4 miles16
Juanita Junction15.8 miles16
Payne16.9 miles14

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 CrawfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1013510The 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 186721. 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.