Gilcrest, Colorado
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the La Salle-Gilcrest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80651. The Survey maps it on the Milliken quadrangle. 1,029 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,754 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresGilcrest fell from 1,162 to 1,029 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 | 1,162 | |
| 2010 | 1,034 | -128 (-11%) |
| 2020 | 1,029 | -5 (-0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 20 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
- 1950 USGS Milliken quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1951 USGS Milliken quadrangle1:24000
- 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
161 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Gilcrest between 2010 and 2020, burning about 114 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 | 123 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 8 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | PLATTEVILLE |
| 7 September 2016 | Smoking | under an acre | Platteville/Gilcrest Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 6 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 5 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | LASALLE |
| 3 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Weld County | UNKNOWN |
| 3 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Weld County | UNKNOWN |
| 24 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:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Gilcrest: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gilcrest in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2008: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1995 | Hail | Gilcrest | $305 | Pea- to nickel-size hail together with torrential rainfall pummeled the town of Gilcrest and vicinity, approximately eight miles south of Greeley. Most crops, trees and other vegetation around Gilcrest had been either flattened or stripped of leaves. Although it rained for over two hours, the most intense rainfall which was coupled with hail lasted approximately 45 minutes. About 22 homes and farms sustained damaging flood waters ranging in depth from two to four feet. A Gilcrest sewer pump station had stopped due to a direct lightning strike. Six hundred panels of glass had been broken at a Fort Lupton Greenhouse. Total damage storm was estimated at $18 million in Weld County for property with an additional $15 million for crops. In Morgan County the damage was $12.5 million for property with $9.8 million for crops on 22,000 acres. Frequent rainfall events over the past several weeks, mainly in the form of heavy afternoon showers and thunderstorms, had saturated the ground at many locations of the Front Range Foothills and adjacent eastern Plains. A trend of upper level instability along with significant amounts moisture had created the afternoon showers and thunderstorms dropping anywhere between one and three and one-half inches of rainfall each afternoon and evening in their paths. The areas most affected were locations near the South Platte River and small creeks and streams leading into the South Platte River. The heavy rains, which started in early to middle May were most intense by the first week in June. Twelve farms along the South Platte River near Weldona, Kersey and Fort Morgan had been flooded and all reported substantial amounts of water in basements. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gilcrest | - | A strong wind broke tree branches, 6 to 8 inches in diameter. The branches also knocked down power lines. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Gilcrest | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Gilcrest | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Gilcrest | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gilcrest | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Gilcrest | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peckham | 2.1 miles | 20 | |
| Houston | 2.4 miles | 20 | |
| Hambert | 3.1 miles | 18 | |
| Dent | 3.5 miles | 20 | |
| Fort Saint Vrain (historical) | 4.1 miles | 20 | |
| Adna | 4.8 miles | 20 | |
| Elm | 5.0 miles | 20 | |
| Platteville | 5.2 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 Gilcrest | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2075167 | 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 204696. 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.









