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Estes Park, Colorado

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Estes Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80517. It stands on Fall River. The Survey maps it on the Estes Park quadrangle. 5,904 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,523 feet above sea level.

Estes Park within Larimer County

On record in Estes Park

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 12 of 45 shown

Every listing in Larimer County

Population over time

2 figures

Estes Park grew from 5,858 to 5,904 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
20105,858
20205,904+46 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 30 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

299 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 299 fires within 5 miles of Estes Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,541 acres in total. 69 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined179
Natural69
Recreation and ceremony27
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking5
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEstes Valley Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
9 September 2009Naturalunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkFALL RIVER FIRE
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEstes Valley Fire Protection DistrictN/A
8 September 2018Naturalunder an acreEstes Valley Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEstes Valley Fire Protection DistrictN/A
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEstes Valley Fire Protection DistrictN/A
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEstes Valley Fire Protection DistrictN/A
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEstes Valley Fire Protection DistrictN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Larimer County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Estes Park: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tantalum. 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
Estes PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mt Olympia MineMica, TantalumPast Producer
Greeno Nos 1-20MicaPast Producer
Mt. OlympiaMicaOccurrence

Every working recorded in Larimer County

Storms near this place

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Estes Park in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 11 hail, 6 lightning, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 deaths and 13 injuries. 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 1999LightningEstes Park1 killed, 2 hurtLightning killed a 35-yr old man and seriously injured his wife and young daughter. The family was hiking near the Gore Range Overlook along Trail Ridge Road when the thunderstorm developed, at an elevation of 11,700 feet.
August 1999LightningEstes Park1 killed, 2 hurtLightning killed one hiker and injured two others, while they were hiking a remote drainage in Rocky Mountain National Park.
August 1998LightningEstes Park6 hurtSix people received minor injuries when lightning struck a nearby scenic overlook atop Trail Ridge Road. The charge apparently travelled across the ground and shocked the group.
October 2000LightningEstes Park2 hurtTwo people were injured when they were struck by lightning at the Forest Canyon Overlook, at nearly 12,000 feet elevation along Trail Ridge Road. The thunderstorm formed rapidly overhead. One of the victims was badly burned, the other had no visible injuries.
August 2019LightningEstes Park1 hurtA hiker was seriously injured by lightning while hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park.
July 2011LightningEstes Park$5,000Lightning sparked three fires.
July 2022HailEstes Park-Torrential hail and rain occurred in the town of Estes Park. The hail piled up to a foot deep and snowplows were called in to remove it.
June 2021Heavy RainEstes Park-Moderate to heavy rainfall associated with a thunderstorm produced minor flooding along Trail Ridge Road.
May 2018Tornado (EF0)Estes Park-A weak tornado touched down briefly near Bear Lake with no observable damage.
September 2013Flash FloodEstes Park-Heavy rain caused five very small dams in the Big Elk Meadows area to fail. As a result, a family became trapped when a county road was washed out and floodwaters damaged their home. Road closures included: U.S. 34 east/west, between Loveland and Estes Park; CO14 east/west, between Walden and Ted's Place. Larimer County Roads 27E, 25E, 52E and 54E were all closed near La Porte due to flash flooding. Several roads were also washed out southwest of Loveland and north of Fort Collins.
June 2023HailEstes Park-no account filed
June 2016HailEstes Park-no account filed
July 2010HailEstes Park-no account filed
July 2007HailEstes Park-no account filed
June 2006HailEstes Park-no account filed
July 2005HailEstes Park-no account filed
June 2004HailEstes Park-no account filed
June 1999HailEstes Park-no account filed
June 1996HailEstes Park-no account filed
June 1996HailEstes Park-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Larimer 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
Beaver Point1.5 miles31
Olympus Heights2.0 miles23
Loveland Heights3.2 miles23
Glen Comfort4.5 miles23
Glen Haven6.5 miles23
Waltonia8.8 miles23
Drake10.3 miles23
Midway11.2 miles23

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 Estes ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1010533The 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 204674. 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.