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Eagle, Colorado

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Eagle-Gypsum census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81631. It stands on Eby Creek. The Survey maps it on the Eagle quadrangle. 7,511 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,601 feet above sea level.

Eagle within Eagle County

On record in Eagle

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 2 records

Population over time

3 figures

Eagle grew from 358 to 7,511 between 1920 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
1920358
20106,508
20207,511+1,003 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

345 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 345 fires within 5 miles of Eagle between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,653 acres in total. 174 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
Natural174
Missing data/not specified/undetermined74
Recreation and ceremony71
Debris and open burning14
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresEagle CountyEBY CREEK
7 September 2001Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionMCHATTEN
7 September 2001Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionHOCKET GLC
6 September 2001Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionH SCRABBLE
5 September 2013Natural4.6 acresNorthwest District, Grand JunctionSPRING CREEK 2
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionSPRING CREEK 3
5 September 2007Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionHIGHWAY 6
5 September 2002Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionMCHATTEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eagle County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Eagle: 4 occurrences, 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold. 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
Brush CreekSilverPast Producer
Ground Hog MineCopperPast Producer
UnknownGoldProducerPlacer
UnknownGypsum-Anhydrite, AnthracitePast Producer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitsStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceSedimentary
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceSedimentary
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel

Every working recorded in Eagle County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eagle in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2007: 3 flash flood, 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2007Flash FloodEagle$2,000Water and mud came down a drainage from the north and flowed across all lanes of Interstate 70 and continued across Highway 6. The flow of water and mud covered a 175 yard stretch of Interstate 70 and Highway 6 and was up to 4 feet deep when it struck the interstate. Two cars on Interstate 70 were stuck in 1.5 feet deep mud which was up to 3 feet deep in the west-bound lanes. The west-bound lanes of the interstate were closed for about 6 hours, while HIghway 6 and the east-bound lanes of the interstate were closed for a shorter period of time.
July 2007Flash FloodEagle$2,000Heavy rainfall in the Sylvan Lake State Park area resulted in a flash flood. The flood came down from the east and was filled with debris that flowed up to 8 feet in depth down a normally dry drainage called Sneeve Gulch. Unofficial rainfall measurements of just over 2 inches came from the State Park Service. The flash flood widened the gulch from about 10 feet to 30 feet. The flash flood crossed USFS Road 400 and a Park Service tributary road. When the flash flood struck the main road, the culverts were immediately clogged with debris and the flow of water and debris went across the road, causing errosion to the road and depositing several feet of debris on the road. An 8 foot high berm adjacent to the Park Service tributary road was 10 feet in length prior to the flash flood. After the flood the berm was 70 feet in length. The debris within the flash flood included trees up to 2 feet in diameter and boulders up to 4 feet in diameter. About 80 people were trapped at the Sylvan Lake State Park campground that night. The flash flood came close to a couple of State Park structures. Otherwise, there was no significant property damage except to the USFS Road 400 where the culverts needed to be replaced.
August 1998Flash FloodEagle$500no account filed
June 2004Tornado (F0)Eagle-no account filed
August 2002FloodEagle-no account filed
August 2001FloodEagle-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindEagle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Eagle 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
Gypsum6.5 miles13
Wolcott8.6 miles14
Carterville9.8 miles14
Dotsero12.3 miles19
Edwards12.4 miles16
Fulford13.3 miles12
Arrowhead Village13.9 miles16
Bachelor Gulch Village15.3 miles13

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 EagleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q670929The 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 204664. 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.