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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.

Haswell within Kiowa County

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

Population over time

3 figures

Haswell 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.

YearPeople Change
200084
201068-16 (-19%)
202071+3 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

1 since 2017

Regional 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/undetermined1

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
24 October 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKiowa County Sheriffs OfficeUNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Kiowa County

Storms near this place

60 of 78 shown

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2016Thunderstorm WindHaswell$2,000Windows broken in a house due to hail and winds.
July 2023Tornado (EFU)Haswell-Photo of brief anticyclonic tornado.
July 2022Heavy RainHaswell-Heavy rainfall of 1.64 inches.
June 2019Tornado (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 2016Thunderstorm WindHaswell-Six inch diameter tree branches ripped off a tree.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindHaswell-Several small tree branches ripped off trees.
June 2014Tornado (EF0)Haswell-A tornado occurred over open country causing no known damage.
October 2013Thunderstorm WindHaswell-Numerous trees limbs and weaker structures were damaged.
May 2011Tornado (EF0)Haswell-A tornado occurred over open country causing no damage.
June 2003Tornado (F0)Haswell-A brief tornado occurred over open country with no known damage.
May 1998Tornado (F0)Haswell-A brief tornado was reported north of Haswell over open country. There was no known damage.
May 1994HailHaswell-Spotters reported dime-size hail fell in Haswell (30 miles northeast of La Junta).
August 1993HailHaswell-A weather spotter reported hail up to dime-size fell in Haswell (30 miles northeast of La Junta).
July 2023HailHaswell-no account filed
July 2023HailHaswell-no account filed
July 2023HailHaswell-no account filed
July 2023HailHaswell-no account filed
May 2021HailHaswell-no account filed
March 2020HailHaswell-no account filed
August 2018HailHaswell-no account filed
June 2017HailHaswell-no account filed
June 2017HailHaswell-no account filed
May 2016HailHaswell-no account filed
May 2016HailHaswell-no account filed
May 2016HailHaswell-no account filed
August 2014HailHaswell-no account filed
June 2014HailHaswell-no account filed
June 2014HailHaswell-no account filed
June 2014HailHaswell-no account filed
August 2012HailHaswell-no account filed
May 2011HailHaswell-no account filed
May 2011HailHaswell-no account filed
May 2011HailHaswell-no account filed
June 2011HailHaswell-no account filed
August 2011Thunderstorm WindHaswell-no account filed
April 2010HailHaswell-no account filed
April 2010HailHaswell-no account filed
April 2010HailHaswell-no account filed
July 2010HailHaswell-no account filed
June 2009HailHaswell-no account filed
May 2008HailHaswell-no account filed
May 2008HailHaswell-no account filed
May 2007HailHaswell-no account filed
June 2007HailHaswell-no account filed
August 2007HailHaswell-no account filed
August 2007HailHaswell-no account filed
August 2007HailHaswell-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHaswell-no account filed
May 2005HailHaswell-no account filed
July 2005HailHaswell-no account filed
October 2005HailHaswell-no account filed
June 2004HailHaswell-no account filed
August 2003HailHaswell-no account filed
June 2003HailHaswell-no account filed
June 2003HailHaswell-no account filed
June 2003HailHaswell-no account filed
June 2002HailHaswell-no account filed
July 2002HailHaswell-no account filed
August 2002HailHaswell-no account filed
May 2001HailHaswell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kiowa 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
Galatea8.2 miles12
Arlington12.5 miles13
Hawkins12.6 miles15
Eads20.3 miles15
Chivington32.8 miles15
Brandon38.3 miles14
Sheridan Lake46.2 miles14
Stuart51.3 miles15

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 HaswellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2286346The 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.