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Garden City, Colorado

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Greeley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80631. The Survey maps it on the Greeley quadrangle. 254 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,695 feet above sea level.

Garden City within Weld County

Population over time

3 figures

Garden City fell from 357 to 254 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.

YearPeople Change
2000357
2010234-123 (-34%)
2020254+20 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

470 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 470 fires within 5 miles of Garden City between 2010 and 2020, burning about 110 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 20 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/undetermined391
Smoking20
Arson/incendiarism20
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony7
Fireworks6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural4
Debris and open burning4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
7 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEvans Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEvans Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersGREELEY
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
4 September 2014Smokingunder an acreEvans Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersGREELEY
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersGREELEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Weld County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Garden City: 15 producers, 14 occurrences, 2 past producers. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory), Iron. 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
Great Western Sugar CoIronProducer
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)OccurrenceSedimentary
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)OccurrenceSedimentary
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)OccurrenceSedimentary
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Weld County

Storms near this place

13 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garden City in 13 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 10 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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
May 2004Thunderstorm WindGarden City1 hurtStrong winds from a dry microburst downed tree branches and electrical lines which knocked out power for several hundred residents. One woman was injured when a tree limb fell on her as she was helping to change a tire. The woman was taken to the hospital but the extent of her injuries was not available.
July 2025HailGarden City-no account filed
September 2024HailGarden City-no account filed
August 2020HailGarden City-no account filed
June 2018HailGarden City-no account filed
July 2018HailGarden City-no account filed
July 2018HailGarden City-no account filed
August 2017Thunderstorm WindGarden City-no account filed
August 2016HailGarden City-no account filed
July 2016HailGarden City-no account filed
July 2016HailGarden City-no account filed
June 2012Thunderstorm WindGarden City-no account filed
May 2007HailGarden City-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
Rosedale0.8 miles21
Jackson Field0.9 miles21
Evans1.2 miles21
Greeley2.3 miles21
East La Salle2.7 miles18
La Salle3.2 miles18
Auburn3.3 miles18
Mumper Corner4.0 miles21

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 Garden CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2073691The 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 180637. 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.