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Erie, Colorado

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1984. It lies in ZIP code area 80516. The Survey maps it on the Erie quadrangle. 30,038 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,131 feet above sea level.

Erie within Boulder County

Population over time

2 figures

Erie grew from 18,135 to 30,038 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
201018,135
202030,038+11,903 (+66%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

304 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 304 fires within 5 miles of Erie between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,446 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined208
Smoking21
Debris and open burning19
Arson/incendiarism14
Natural12
Recreation and ceremony11
Equipment and vehicle use7
Fireworks5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMountain View Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersERIE
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
4 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-Boulder Districtnot named
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLafayette Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
29 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
26 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMountain View Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
21 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Metro Fire Rescue DistrictN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boulder County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Erie: 7 past producers, 5 occurrences, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Fire Clay (Refractory), Silver. 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
JacksonSilverPast Producer
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence
BeaverGoldPast Producer
Standard MineGoldPast Producer
BakerSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Crane PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Erie PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Boulder County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Erie in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 hail. 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
June 1995HailErie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boulder 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
Tabor1.3 miles22
Canfield1.3 miles22
Gooding2.4 miles22
Leyner2.8 miles22
Ninemile Corner3.7 miles22
Lafayette4.4 miles20
Liggett4.5 miles26
Pleasant View Ridge4.6 miles22

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 ErieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1003798The 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 178731. 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.