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Delta, Colorado

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Delta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81416. It stands on Uncompahgre River. The Survey maps it on the Delta quadrangle. 9,035 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,875 feet above sea level.

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Delta within Delta County

On record in Delta

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 6 records

Population over time

2 figures

Delta grew from 8,915 to 9,035 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
20108,915
20209,035+120 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

250 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 250 fires within 5 miles of Delta between 2011 and 2020, burning about 13 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined247
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelta County Fire Protection District #1N/A
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersDELTA
27 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelta County Fire Protection District #1N/A
22 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelta County Fire Protection District #1UNKNOWN
21 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelta County Fire Protection District #1UNKNOWN
17 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelta County Fire Protection District #1UNKNOWN
16 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreDelta County Fire Protection District #1UNKNOWN
14 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelta County Fire Protection District #1UNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delta County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Delta: 9 past producers, 8 unknowns, 5 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Chipeta MillGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Delta County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Delta Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Delta County

Storms near this place

21 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delta in 21 storm reports between 1993 and 2009: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 funnel cloud, 3 hail, 3 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
May 1993Thunderstorm WindDelta$500,000Strong thunderstorm winds destroyed a mobile home in Peach Valley, east of Delta. No one was injured. Time estimated.
July 2006Flash FloodDelta$40,000no account filed
October 2001LightningDelta$28,000no account filed
September 2002Flash FloodDelta$25,000no account filed
September 2002Tornado (F1)Delta$25,000no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindDelta$20,000no account filed
August 2000LightningDelta$3,000no account filed
March 2001FloodDelta$2,000no account filed
June 2009Heavy RainDelta-Heavy rainfall caused street flooding in the southern part of the town of Delta, including the area around 12th and Main Street.
August 2006Heavy RainDelta-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindDelta-no account filed
August 2003Funnel CloudDelta-no account filed
August 2003Funnel CloudDelta-no account filed
September 2002Funnel CloudDelta-no account filed
August 2001FloodDelta-no account filed
August 2001HailDelta-no account filed
July 2001HailDelta-no account filed
July 2001FloodDelta-no account filed
July 2000HailDelta-no account filed
July 1998Funnel CloudDelta-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindDelta-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
North Delta1.1 miles16
Saunders3.4 miles16
Read5.2 miles14
Chipeta5.3 miles16
Cory5.4 miles14
Saxton5.5 miles14
Austin6.8 miles14
Orchard City7.9 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 DeltaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q651793The 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 185516. 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.