Fort Collins, Colorado
29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Fort Collins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80521. The Survey maps it on the Fort Collins quadrangle. 169,810 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,003 feet above sea level.
On record in Fort Collins
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 29 shown
Ammons Halllisted 1978
Peter Anderson Houselisted 1979
Armstrong Hotellisted 2000
Avery Houselisted 1972
Baker Houselisted 1978
Bee Farmlisted 2002
Botanical and Horticultural Laboratorylisted 1978
Jay H. Bouton Houselisted 1978
Fort Collins Armorylisted 2002
Fort Collins Municipal Railway Birnery Safety Streetcar No. 21listed 1984
Montezuma Fuller Houselisted 1978
Great Western Sugar Company Effluent Flume and Bridgelisted 2014
Population over time
2 figuresFort Collins grew from 143,986 to 169,810 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 | 143,986 | |
| 2020 | 169,810 | +25,824 (+18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 29 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.
- 1906 USGS Fort Collins quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1907 USGS Livermore quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1908 USGS Fort Collins quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1909 USGS Livermore quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Fort Collins quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1961 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Fort Collins quadrangle1:100000
What the histories say of this town
16,748 words1 chapter about Fort Collins from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.
| Chapter | From | Length |
|---|---|---|
| History | History of Larimer County, Colorado (1911) | 16,748 words in 2 parts |
Fires near this place
537 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 537 fires within 5 miles of Fort Collins between 2003 and 2019, burning about 926 acres in total. 6 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 | 453 |
| Smoking | 30 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 25 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Fireworks | 7 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Poudre Fire Authority | UNKNOWN |
| 30 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Poudre Fire Authority | UNKNOWN |
| 30 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Poudre Fire Authority | UNKNOWN |
| 30 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | FORT COLLINS |
| 30 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | FORT COLLINS |
| 29 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | FORT COLLINS |
| 26 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | FORT COLLINS |
| 26 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | LAPORTE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 21 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Fort Collins: 15 producers, 4 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory), Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Graphite Nos 1 To 7 | Graphite | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Unnamed Mine | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Unknown | ||
| Unknown | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Occurrence | ||
| Boettcher Cement Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Colo Lien Company | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Fort Collins | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| State Lease | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
17 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Collins in 17 storm reports between 1993 and 1996: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 lightning, 1 tornado. The reports record 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1996 | Lightning | Fort Collins | 3 hurt | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Lightning | Fort Collins | 1 hurt | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Lightning | Fort Collins | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | Fort Collins | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Lightning | Fort Collins | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | Fort Collins | $5,000 | Hail up to baseball-size caused considerable damage to buildings and vehicles, as well as crops, over portions of Larimer County. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Fort Collins | - | Lightning struck a south Fort Collins house leaving a gaping hole in the roof. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Fort Collins | - | Thunderstorm winds downed two large cottonwoods in West Fort Collins. |
| July 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Fort Collins | - | Spotters reported a brief tornado touchdown in an open field northwest of Fort Collins. No damage or injuries was reported. |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Collins | - | Thunderstorm winds gusted to 58 mph (50 knots) north of Fort Collins. |
| September 1996 | Flood | Fort Collins | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Fort Collins | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Fort Collins | - | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Collins | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Fort Collins | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Collins | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Collins | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buckingham | 1.0 miles | 29 | |
| Andersonville | 1.6 miles | 29 | |
| Drakes | 2.2 miles | 29 | |
| Mountain View | 2.4 miles | 31 | |
| Black Hollow Junction | 3.0 miles | 29 | |
| Omega | 3.2 miles | 29 | |
| Arrowhead | 3.2 miles | 29 | |
| Kenyon Corner | 3.8 miles | 29 |
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 Fort Collins | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q490732 | 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 204673. 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.











