Grand Lake, Colorado
29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Granby census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80447. It stands on North Inlet. The Survey maps it on the Grand Lake quadrangle. 410 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 8,369 feet above sea level.
On record in Grand Lake
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 records
Grand Lake Lodgelisted 1993
Grand River Ditchlisted 1976
Holzwarth Historic Districtlisted 1977
Kauffman Houselisted 1974
Little Buckaroo Ranch Barnlisted 2009
Lulu City Sitelisted 1977
Shadow Mountain Lookoutlisted 1978
Shadow Mountain Traillisted 2008
Tonahutu Creek Traillisted 2008- Dutchtownlisted 1988
- Greenwood Lodgelisted 2010
- Smith-Eslick Cottage Courtlisted 2016
Population over time
3 figuresGrand Lake fell from 447 to 410 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 | 447 | |
| 2010 | 471 | +24 (+5%) |
| 2020 | 410 | -61 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 29 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.
- 1915 USGS Longs Peak quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1915 USGS Rocky Mountain National Park quadrangle1:125000
- 1919 USGS Rocky Mountain National Park quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1954 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Grand Lake quadrangle1:24000, 8 printings
- 1958 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Estes Park quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
69 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Grand Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 156 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 25 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Natural | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Grand Lake Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 20 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | SODA CREEK |
| 18 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 40 acres | Rocky Mountain National Park | ONAHU |
| 15 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | KAWUNEECHE |
| 15 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | SOUTH SUPPLY |
| 12 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Grand Lake Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 9 August 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Rocky Mountain National Park | SUMMERLAND |
| 6 August 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | 123 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Grand Lake: 3 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Lake Wolverine | Lead, Gold, Copper, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Stillwater Creek Placers | Gold | Occurrence | Placer | |
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Gravel |
Storms near this place
2 since 2021Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand Lake in 2 storm reports in 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Grand Lake | $25,000 | Flash flooding along Tonahutu Creek forced the shut down of Grand Lake's hydro plant. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grand Lake | - | Strong microburst winds damaged several boats at Grand Lake. Two large pontoon boats were lifted out of the water, one landed upside down near a home. |
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.
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 Grand Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2275147 | 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 202505. 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.










