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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.

Fort Collins within Larimer County

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

Every listing in Larimer County

Population over time

2 figures

Fort 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.

YearPeople Change
2010143,986
2020169,810+25,824 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 29 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.

What the histories say of this town

16,748 words

1 chapter about Fort Collins from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

ChapterFrom Length
HistoryHistory of Larimer County, Colorado (1911)16,748 words in 2 parts

Fires near this place

537 since 2003

Regional 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/undetermined453
Smoking30
Equipment and vehicle use25
Debris and open burning9
Fireworks7
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFORT COLLINS
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFORT COLLINS
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFORT COLLINS
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFORT COLLINS
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersLAPORTE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Larimer County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Graphite Nos 1 To 7GraphiteProducer
UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceSedimentary
Unnamed MineGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence
Boettcher Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Colo Lien CompanyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Fort CollinsStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
State LeaseStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Larimer County

Storms near this place

17 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 1996LightningFort Collins3 hurtno account filed
June 1996LightningFort Collins1 hurtno account filed
August 1996LightningFort Collins$50,000no account filed
July 1994HailFort Collins$50,000no account filed
June 1996LightningFort Collins$10,000no account filed
July 1994HailFort Collins$5,000Hail up to baseball-size caused considerable damage to buildings and vehicles, as well as crops, over portions of Larimer County.
June 1995HailFort Collins-Lightning struck a south Fort Collins house leaving a gaping hole in the roof.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindWest Fort Collins-Thunderstorm winds downed two large cottonwoods in West Fort Collins.
July 1994Tornado (F0)Fort Collins-Spotters reported a brief tornado touchdown in an open field northwest of Fort Collins. No damage or injuries was reported.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindFort Collins-Thunderstorm winds gusted to 58 mph (50 knots) north of Fort Collins.
September 1996FloodFort Collins-no account filed
June 1995HailFort Collins-no account filed
June 1994HailFort Collins-no account filed
August 1994Thunderstorm WindFort Collins-no account filed
June 1994HailFort Collins-no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindFort Collins-no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindFort Collins-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
Buckingham1.0 miles29
Andersonville1.6 miles29
Drakes2.2 miles29
Mountain View2.4 miles31
Black Hollow Junction3.0 miles29
Omega3.2 miles29
Arrowhead3.2 miles29
Kenyon Corner3.8 miles29

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 CollinsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q490732The 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.