Haswell, Colorado
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Haswell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81045. The Survey maps it on the Haswell quadrangle. 71 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,544 feet above sea level.
On record in Haswell
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 1 record
Hotel Holly-Haswell Hotellisted 2013
Population over time
3 figuresHaswell fell from 84 to 71 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 | 84 | |
| 2010 | 68 | -16 (-19%) |
| 2020 | 71 | +3 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1891 USGS Las Animas quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Las Animas quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Lamar quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Lamar quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1974 USGS Haswell quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Las Animas quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Haswell in 2017, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 October 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kiowa County Sheriffs Office | UNKNOWN |
Storms near this place
60 of 78 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Haswell in 78 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 61 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Haswell | $2,000 | Windows broken in a house due to hail and winds. |
| July 2023 | Tornado (EFU) | Haswell | - | Photo of brief anticyclonic tornado. |
| July 2022 | Heavy Rain | Haswell | - | Heavy rainfall of 1.64 inches. |
| June 2019 | Tornado (EFU) | Haswell | - | A brief tornado touched down just southwest of Haswell, CO in Kiowa County. Contact with county Emergency Management provided no discernible damage was reported so storm survey was not conducted. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Haswell | - | Six inch diameter tree branches ripped off a tree. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Haswell | - | Several small tree branches ripped off trees. |
| June 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Haswell | - | A tornado occurred over open country causing no known damage. |
| October 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Haswell | - | Numerous trees limbs and weaker structures were damaged. |
| May 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Haswell | - | A tornado occurred over open country causing no damage. |
| June 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Haswell | - | A brief tornado occurred over open country with no known damage. |
| May 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Haswell | - | A brief tornado was reported north of Haswell over open country. There was no known damage. |
| May 1994 | Hail | Haswell | - | Spotters reported dime-size hail fell in Haswell (30 miles northeast of La Junta). |
| August 1993 | Hail | Haswell | - | A weather spotter reported hail up to dime-size fell in Haswell (30 miles northeast of La Junta). |
| July 2023 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| March 2020 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| October 2005 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Haswell | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Haswell | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Galatea | 8.2 miles | 12 | |
| Arlington | 12.5 miles | 13 | |
| Hawkins | 12.6 miles | 15 | |
| Eads | 20.3 miles | 15 | |
| Chivington | 32.8 miles | 15 | |
| Brandon | 38.3 miles | 14 | |
| Sheridan Lake | 46.2 miles | 14 | |
| Stuart | 51.3 miles | 15 |
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 Haswell | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2286346 | 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 195308. 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.
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.





