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Edgewater, Colorado

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Northeast Jefferson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80214. The Survey maps it on the Arvada quadrangle. 5,005 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,381 feet above sea level.

Edgewater within Jefferson County

On record in Edgewater

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Edgewater fell from 5,170 to 5,005 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
20105,170
20205,005-165 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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

1,708 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,708 fires within 5 miles of Edgewater between 2003 and 2020, burning about 202 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 44 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/undetermined1463
Equipment and vehicle use47
Arson/incendiarism44
Smoking43
Recreation and ceremony33
Debris and open burning21
Fireworks16
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Natural12
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
9 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWest Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersDENVER
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersARVADA
9 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWest Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWest Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Edgewater: 20 past producers, 7 producers, 6 occurrences, 2 unknowns. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Clay, Sodium. 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
Allied Chemical CorpSulfurProducer
Rodger Steele ClaimUraniumProspect
Soda Lakes, Soda SpringsSodiumProducer
Cooley Gravel Co. PitsSand and Gravel, Construction, GoldPast Producer1951, 1964
Denver Brick & Pipe Co.ClayProducer
Lakewood PlantClayProducer
Mexican DiggingsGoldPast Producer1858
Robinson Brick & Tile Co., Plant 1ClayProducer
Strainland MineClayProducer
Swadley PlacersGoldPast Producer1858, 1859

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edgewater in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 13 hail, 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
May 2017HailEdgewater$2,300,000,000The estimated damage is for the entire episode.
July 2019Flash FloodEdgewater$10,000There were reports of West Colfax Avenue in Lakewood being inundated with water. There was up to 3 feet of water on other streets in Lakewood. One woman was rescued by a passerby in Lakewood when floodwaters began pouring into her car near the iconic Casa Bonita restaurant.
July 2025HailEdgewater-Report from mping.
June 2024HailEdgewater-The report was from mping.
May 2017HailEdgewater-no account filed
May 2017HailEdgewater-no account filed
May 2017HailEdgewater-no account filed
May 2017HailEdgewater-no account filed
May 2017HailEdgewater-no account filed
July 2009HailEdgewater-no account filed
May 2007HailEdgewater-no account filed
May 2007HailEdgewater-no account filed
July 2007HailEdgewater-no account filed
October 1994HailEdgewater-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Olinger Gardens0.5 miles24
Spivak0.6 miles20
Highland Gardens1.0 miles24
Wheat Ridge1.1 miles24
Mountain View1.5 miles24
Lakeside1.7 miles24
Melrose2.0 miles24
Lakeview2.0 miles24

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 EdgewaterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2129231The 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 202848. 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.