Fort Lupton, Colorado
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Fort Lupton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80621. It stands on Big Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Lupton quadrangle. 7,955 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,908 feet above sea level.
On record in Fort Lupton
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 1 record
Ottesen Grain Company Feed Milllisted 1998
Population over time
3 figuresFort Lupton grew from 6,787 to 7,955 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 6,787 | |
| 2010 | 7,377 | +590 (+9%) |
| 2020 | 7,955 | +578 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 21 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.
- 1902 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1949 USGS Fort Lupton quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1950 USGS Fort Lupton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
270 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 270 fires within 5 miles of Fort Lupton between 2010 and 2020, burning about 228 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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 | 253 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | FORT LUPTON |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | FORT LUPTON |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | FORT LUPTON |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | FORT LUPTON |
| 30 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 26 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southeast Weld Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 25 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 25 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Lupton in 7 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Lupton | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew a tin roof off a cattle shelter into a mobile home west of Fort Lupton, causing considerable damage to the mobile home. |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Lupton | $500 | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Fort Lupton | - | A large swath of damaging hail up to one inch in diameter was reported at numerous locations between and including Erie to Kersey. Numerous reports of crop damage had been reported over southern Weld County. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Fort Lupton | - | Hay and wheat had been knocked down and damaged. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Fort Lupton | - | Hay and wheat had been knocked down and damaged. |
| July 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Fort Lupton | - | Spotters reported a brief tornado touchdown in an open field north of Fort Lupton (24 miles south southwest of Greeley). No damage or injuries was reported. |
| July 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Fort Lupton | - | A small short-lived tornado was observed by spotters in an open field north of Fort Lupton (24 miles south southwest of Greeley). No damage or injuries was reported. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Powars | 3.0 miles | 21 | |
| Aristocrat Ranchettes | 3.2 miles | 21 | |
| Vollmar | 3.7 miles | 20 | |
| Wattenberg | 4.1 miles | 21 | |
| Frederick | 6.7 miles | 20 | |
| Dacono | 6.7 miles | 20 | |
| Firestone | 6.8 miles | 20 | |
| Evanston | 6.8 miles | 20 |
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 Lupton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2272364 | 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 180857. 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.
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.









