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Frederick, Colorado

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Erie-Frederick census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80530. The Survey maps it on the Frederick quadrangle. 14,513 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,984 feet above sea level.

Frederick within Weld County

Population over time

2 figures

Frederick grew from 8,679 to 14,513 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
20108,679
202014,513+5,834 (+67%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

411 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 411 fires within 5 miles of Frederick between 1992 and 2020, burning about 219 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 17 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/undetermined337
Arson/incendiarism17
Smoking16
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use11
Fireworks6
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFORT LUPTON
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFORT LUPTON
30 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFrederick-Firestone Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Weld 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 Frederick: 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
GoldenSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
St VrainSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Weld County

Storms near this place

18 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frederick in 18 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 18 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2024HailFrederick-Report via mPing.
May 2025HailFrederick-no account filed
July 2024HailFrederick-no account filed
May 2023HailFrederick-no account filed
May 2023HailFrederick-no account filed
April 2021HailFrederick-no account filed
August 2020HailFrederick-no account filed
May 2019HailFrederick-no account filed
August 2019HailFrederick-no account filed
August 2019HailFrederick-no account filed
August 2019HailFrederick-no account filed
August 2019HailFrederick-no account filed
June 2018HailFrederick-no account filed
June 2018HailFrederick-no account filed
June 2018HailFrederick-no account filed
June 2018HailFrederick-no account filed
June 2018HailFrederick-no account filed
June 2008HailFrederick-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Weld 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
Evanston0.5 miles20
Firestone0.9 miles20
Dacono1.0 miles20
Puritan3.4 miles20
Harney3.6 miles21
Rinn4.3 miles21
Idaho Creek4.3 miles22
Saint Vrains4.4 miles20

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 FrederickAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q607417The 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 180839. 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.