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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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
Delta County Bank Buildinglisted 1993
Egyptian Theaterlisted 1993
First Methodist Episcopal Church of Deltalisted 1991
Garnethurstlisted 1995
US Post Office and Federal Building-Delta Mainlisted 1986- Delta Municipal Light & Power Plantlisted 2024
Population over time
2 figuresDelta 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 8,915 | |
| 2020 | 9,035 | +120 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 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 Moab quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Delta quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Delta quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
250 since 2011Regional 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/undetermined | 247 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Delta County Fire Protection District #1 | N/A |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | DELTA |
| 27 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Delta County Fire Protection District #1 | N/A |
| 22 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Delta County Fire Protection District #1 | UNKNOWN |
| 21 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Delta County Fire Protection District #1 | UNKNOWN |
| 17 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Delta County Fire Protection District #1 | UNKNOWN |
| 16 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Delta County Fire Protection District #1 | UNKNOWN |
| 14 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Delta County Fire Protection District #1 | UNKNOWN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 24 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chipeta Mill | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Past Producer | ||
| Delta County Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Delta Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
21 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delta | $500,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds destroyed a mobile home in Peach Valley, east of Delta. No one was injured. Time estimated. |
| July 2006 | Flash Flood | Delta | $40,000 | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Lightning | Delta | $28,000 | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Flash Flood | Delta | $25,000 | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Tornado (F1) | Delta | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delta | $20,000 | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Lightning | Delta | $3,000 | no account filed |
| March 2001 | Flood | Delta | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Heavy Rain | Delta | - | Heavy rainfall caused street flooding in the southern part of the town of Delta, including the area around 12th and Main Street. |
| August 2006 | Heavy Rain | Delta | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delta | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Delta | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Delta | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Funnel Cloud | Delta | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Flood | Delta | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Delta | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Delta | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Flood | Delta | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Delta | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Delta | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delta | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Delta | 1.1 miles | 16 | |
| Saunders | 3.4 miles | 16 | |
| Read | 5.2 miles | 14 | |
| Chipeta | 5.3 miles | 16 | |
| Cory | 5.4 miles | 14 | |
| Saxton | 5.5 miles | 14 | |
| Austin | 6.8 miles | 14 | |
| Orchard City | 7.9 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 Delta | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q651793 | 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 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.







