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.
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
Rocky Mountain National Park Administration BuildingNational Historic Landmark · listed 2001
Baldpate Innlisted 1996
Cascade Cottageslisted 2020
Clatworthy Placelisted 2004
Crags Lodgelisted 1998
Edgemontlisted 1998
Elkhorn Lodgelisted 1978
Fall River Entrance Historic Districtlisted 2018
Fall River Pass Historic Districtlisted 2021
Fall River Pass Ranger Stationlisted 1988
Fall River Pump House and Catchment Basinlisted 2006
Fall River Roadlisted 2018
Population over time
2 figuresEstes 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5,858 | |
| 2020 | 5,904 | +46 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 30 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.
- 1915 USGS Longs Peak quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1915 USGS Rocky Mountain National Park quadrangle1:125000
- 1919 USGS Rocky Mountain National Park quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1954 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Estes Park quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Estes Park quadrangle1:24000, 8 printings
- 1961 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Estes Park quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
299 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 179 |
| Natural | 69 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 27 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Estes Valley Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 9 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Rocky Mountain National Park | FALL RIVER FIRE |
| 8 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Estes Valley Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 8 September 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Estes Valley Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 7 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Estes Valley Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 7 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Estes Valley Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 6 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Estes Valley Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 6 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Estes Valley Fire Protection District | N/A |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estes Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Mt Olympia Mine | Mica, Tantalum | Past Producer | ||
| Greeno Nos 1-20 | Mica | Past Producer | ||
| Mt. Olympia | Mica | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
20 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1999 | Lightning | Estes Park | 1 killed, 2 hurt | Lightning 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 1999 | Lightning | Estes Park | 1 killed, 2 hurt | Lightning killed one hiker and injured two others, while they were hiking a remote drainage in Rocky Mountain National Park. |
| August 1998 | Lightning | Estes Park | 6 hurt | Six 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 2000 | Lightning | Estes Park | 2 hurt | Two 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 2019 | Lightning | Estes Park | 1 hurt | A hiker was seriously injured by lightning while hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park. |
| July 2011 | Lightning | Estes Park | $5,000 | Lightning sparked three fires. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Estes 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 2021 | Heavy Rain | Estes Park | - | Moderate to heavy rainfall associated with a thunderstorm produced minor flooding along Trail Ridge Road. |
| May 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Estes Park | - | A weak tornado touched down briefly near Bear Lake with no observable damage. |
| September 2013 | Flash Flood | Estes 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 2023 | Hail | Estes Park | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Estes Park | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Estes Park | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Estes Park | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Estes Park | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Estes Park | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Estes Park | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Estes Park | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Estes Park | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Estes Park | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaver Point | 1.5 miles | 31 | |
| Olympus Heights | 2.0 miles | 23 | |
| Loveland Heights | 3.2 miles | 23 | |
| Glen Comfort | 4.5 miles | 23 | |
| Glen Haven | 6.5 miles | 23 | |
| Waltonia | 8.8 miles | 23 | |
| Drake | 10.3 miles | 23 | |
| Midway | 11.2 miles | 23 |
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 Park | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1010533 | 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 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.











