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Crowley, Colorado

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Ordway census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81033. The Survey maps it on the Ordway quadrangle. 166 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,354 feet above sea level.

Crowley within Crowley County

On record in Crowley

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Crowley fell from 176 to 166 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
2010176
2020166-10 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

34 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Crowley between 1994 and 2020, burning about 35 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined19
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Natural1

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
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
6 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCrowley Countynot named
25 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOtero Countynot named
19 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
9 May 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresOlney Springs Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
31 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersCROWLEY
20 May 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCrowley Countynot named
16 May 2015Smoking2.0 acresOrdway Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crowley County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Crowley: 1 occurrence. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand and Gravel

Every working recorded in Crowley County

Storms near this place

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crowley in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2016: 13 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 2016Flash FloodCrowley-Heavy rain produced flash flooding and high water in the Crowley and Ordway areas.
October 1997Tornado (F0)Crowley-A brief tornado was reported by a Crowley county sheriffs officer on the outskirts of Crowley. There was no known damage. The brief, weak tornado was associated with the line of thunderstorms to the west of several supercell storms.
June 1995Tornado (F0)Crowley-Brief tornado touchdown reported by the Department of Corrections caused no known damage.
September 2016HailCrowley-no account filed
July 2016HailCrowley-no account filed
June 2014HailCrowley-no account filed
June 2010HailCrowley-no account filed
May 2007HailCrowley-no account filed
June 2007HailCrowley-no account filed
June 2007HailCrowley-no account filed
June 2005HailCrowley-no account filed
September 2001HailCrowley-no account filed
September 2001HailCrowley-no account filed
July 1998HailCrowley-no account filed
July 1996HailCrowley-no account filed
May 1995HailCrowley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crowley 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
King Center2.9 miles14
Olney Springs5.1 miles14
Ordway5.6 miles14
Pultney10.4 miles18
Sugar City10.6 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 CrowleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2303604The 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 195382. 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.