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.
Population over time
2 figuresCrawford 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 431 | |
| 2020 | 403 | -28 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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 Crawford quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1968 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Paonia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 2001 USGS Crawford quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
53 since 1993Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 37 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | YOUNG |
| 9 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | YOUTH |
| 9 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | ASPEN |
| 9 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | FLATS |
| 9 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests | not named |
| 5 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | YOUNG |
| 5 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | C HILL |
| 27 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | FRUITLAND |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silver Link | Uranium | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Gravel | |
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Gravel |
Storms near this place
5 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2012 | Heavy Rain | Crawford | - | Over 0.75 inches of rain fell within an hour from a thunderstorm that moved between Paonia and Crawford Reservoir. |
| July 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Crawford | - | A large funnel cloud formed just south of Crawford and was photographed by a person about 10 miles away in Hotchkiss. |
| July 2006 | Heavy Rain | Crawford | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Crawford | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Heavy Rain | Crawford | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hotchkiss | 8.8 miles | 13 | |
| Coburn | 10.0 miles | 13 | |
| Lazear | 10.6 miles | 17 | |
| Rogers Mesa | 11.1 miles | 17 | |
| Paonia | 11.4 miles | 15 | |
| Bowie | 15.4 miles | 16 | |
| Juanita Junction | 15.8 miles | 16 | |
| Payne | 16.9 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 Crawford | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1013510 | 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 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.






