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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.

Grand Lake within Grand County

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

Population over time

3 figures

Grand 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.

YearPeople Change
2000447
2010471+24 (+5%)
2020410-61 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 29 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

69 since 1992

Regional 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 ceremony25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Natural17
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 September 2018Naturalunder an acreGrand Lake Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
20 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandSODA CREEK
18 September 2010Arson/incendiarism40 acresRocky Mountain National ParkONAHU
15 September 2019Naturalunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandKAWUNEECHE
15 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandSOUTH SUPPLY
12 September 2017Naturalunder an acreGrand Lake Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
9 August 1995Naturalunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkSUMMERLAND
6 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland123

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grand County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Grand Lake WolverineLead, Gold, Copper, SilverPast Producer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Stillwater Creek PlacersGoldOccurrencePlacer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSedimentary
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Grand County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2021Flash FloodGrand Lake$25,000Flash flooding along Tonahutu Creek forced the shut down of Grand Lake's hydro plant.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindGrand 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.

Every storm recorded in Grand 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
Gaskil5.8 miles29
Granby13.0 miles25
Elkdale14.9 miles25
Tabernash17.9 miles26
Hot Sulphur Springs19.3 miles18
Fraser21.2 miles26
Maryvale22.1 miles26
Parshall23.0 miles18

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 LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2275147The 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.