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.
Population over time
2 figuresEdwards 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 10,266 | |
| 2020 | 11,246 | +980 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1957 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Edwards quadrangle1:24000, 8 printings
- 1962 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Vail quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
84 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 42 |
| Natural | 22 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 7.5 acres | Eagle County | not named |
| 25 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 21 September 2010 | Natural | under an acre | White River National Forest | BEARD |
| 20 September 2010 | Natural | under an acre | White River National Forest | BERRY CREEK |
| 16 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Eagle County | MURRAY ROAD |
| 16 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Eagle County | not named |
| 9 August 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | White River National Forest | LOST |
| 5 August 1993 | Natural | under an acre | White River National Forest | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Cr. | Gold | Occurrence | Placer | |
| Avon | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Past Producer | ||
| B & B Edwards Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Sand and Gravel | |
| Gravel Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2024 | Debris Flow | Edwards | - | 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 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Edwards | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arrowhead Village | 1.6 miles | 16 | |
| Carterville | 2.9 miles | 14 | |
| Bachelor Gulch Village | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Avon | 3.9 miles | 16 | |
| Beaver Creek Village | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| Wolcott | 6.0 miles | 14 | |
| Dowds Junction | 8.2 miles | 21 | |
| Minturn | 9.6 miles | 21 |
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 Edwards | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q534396 | 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 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.






