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Edwards, Colorado

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Minturn-Red Cliff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81632. It stands on Berry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Edwards quadrangle. 11,246 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,221 feet above sea level.

Edwards within Eagle County

Population over time

2 figures

Edwards grew from 10,266 to 11,246 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
201010,266
202011,246+980 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

84 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Edwards between 1992 and 2020, burning about 111 acres in total. 22 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/undetermined42
Natural22
Recreation and ceremony11
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1
Fireworks1

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
4 September 1992Arson/incendiarism7.5 acresEagle Countynot named
25 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
21 September 2010Naturalunder an acreWhite River National ForestBEARD
20 September 2010Naturalunder an acreWhite River National ForestBERRY CREEK
16 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEagle CountyMURRAY ROAD
16 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEagle Countynot named
9 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWhite River National ForestLOST
5 August 1993Naturalunder an acreWhite River National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eagle County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Edwards: 5 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Lake Cr.GoldOccurrencePlacer
AvonGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
B & B Edwards PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceSedimentary
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand and Gravel
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Eagle County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edwards in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 1 funnel cloud, 1 debris flow. 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
August 2024Debris FlowEdwards-Part of the same storms that led to a mudslide on Interstate 70. Mudslides were reported along Squaw Creek Drive in Cordillera, south of Edwards. Road and bridge crews were dispatched to clean up the debris.
August 1998Funnel CloudEdwards-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
Arrowhead Village1.6 miles16
Carterville2.9 miles14
Bachelor Gulch Village3.1 miles13
Avon3.9 miles16
Beaver Creek Village5.0 miles13
Wolcott6.0 miles14
Dowds Junction8.2 miles21
Minturn9.6 miles21

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 EdwardsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q534396The 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 204666. 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.