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Haxtun, Colorado

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Haxtun census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80731. The Survey maps it on the Haxtun West quadrangle. 981 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,029 feet above sea level.

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Haxtun within Phillips County

On record in Haxtun

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 4 records

Population over time

3 figures

Haxtun grew from 481 to 981 between 1990 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
1990481
2010946+465 (+97%)
2020981+35 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Haxtun between 2011 and 2017, burning about 44 acres 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/undetermined3

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
25 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersHAXTUN
3 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersHAXTUN
5 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHaxtun Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Phillips County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Haxtun: 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSedimentary

Every working recorded in Phillips County

Storms near this place

60 of 71 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Haxtun in 71 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 42 hail, 22 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 2 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
June 2009HailHaxtun$20,000A severe thunderstorm caused extensive damage to wheat and corn crops in the immediate area. Out of 104,000 planted acres of wheat in Phillips County; 3,000 were destroyed. Sixty thousand additional acres were damaged. Out of 102,000 planted acres of corn in the county; 2,000 were completely destroyed and 20,500 were damaged.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindHaxtun$20,000Strong thunderstorm winds downed a tree which crashed on to a home. The force of the blow punctured a hole in the ceiling, and knocked drywall into the laundry room.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindHaxtun$5,500Wet microburst, straight-line winds estimated in excess of 75 knots ripped through the Haxtun vicinity as a second round of thunderstorms moved through the area. The winds flipped two corner irrigation sytems on to the adjacent road, toppled a few grain bins and removed some shingles off of a roof. A 70-foot evergreen tree had been toppled along with some smaller trees.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindHaxtun-Macroburst winds downed power lines and damaged several buildings.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindHaxtun-Damaging winds from a severe thunderstorm knocked down numerous trees and power lines.
June 2004Tornado (F0)Haxtun-A small tornado touched down but did no damage.
June 2004Tornado (F0)Haxtun-A small tornado touched down but did no damage.
June 2000Tornado (F0)Haxtun-A small tornado touched down briefly but did no damage.
August 1999Flash FloodHaxtun-Thunderstorms producing heavy rain, with storm totals from 3 to 6 inches, caused flooding and flash flooding problems southeast of Haxtun, near the Yuma county line. Several county roads were washed out with widespread field flooding reported. Heavy rain coupled with small hail, stripped corn and sunflower crops in the area.
May 1998HailHaxtun-Torrential hail covered Highway 59, up to 10 inches deep in spots, for a quarter mile stretch near the Phillips/Yuma County Line. Snowplows had to be called out to clear the highway. Substantial crop damage was also reported in the area, although no estimate of the damage was available.
June 1995Tornado (F0)Haxtun-A brief tornado touched down on open land.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindHaxtun-no account filed
July 2025HailHaxtun-no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindHaxtun-no account filed
August 2024Thunderstorm WindHaxtun-no account filed
June 2023HailHaxtun-no account filed
May 2023HailHaxtun-no account filed
July 2023HailHaxtun-no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHaxtun-no account filed
July 2023HailHaxtun-no account filed
July 2023HailHaxtun-no account filed
June 2023HailHaxtun-no account filed
June 2023HailHaxtun-no account filed
June 2023HailHaxtun-no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindHaxtun-no account filed
June 2016HailHaxtun-no account filed
June 2016HailHaxtun-no account filed
June 2016HailHaxtun-no account filed
July 2012HailHaxtun-no account filed
June 2011HailHaxtun-no account filed
June 2011HailHaxtun-no account filed
June 2009HailHaxtun-no account filed
August 2009HailHaxtun-no account filed
April 2007HailHaxtun-no account filed
June 2006HailHaxtun-no account filed
June 2006HailHaxtun-no account filed
June 2006HailHaxtun-no account filed
June 2006HailHaxtun-no account filed
June 2006HailHaxtun-no account filed
June 2006HailHaxtun-no account filed
June 2005HailHaxtun-no account filed
August 2005HailHaxtun-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindHaxtun-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindHaxtun-no account filed
June 2004HailHaxtun-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindHaxtun-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindHaxtun-no account filed
June 2003HailHaxtun-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindHaxtun-no account filed
June 2003HailHaxtun-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindHaxtun-no account filed
July 2003HailHaxtun-no account filed
July 2001HailHaxtun-no account filed
May 2000Tornado (F0)Haxtun-no account filed
July 2000HailHaxtun-no account filed
July 2000HailHaxtun-no account filed
July 2000HailHaxtun-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindHaxtun-no account filed
September 1999HailHaxtun-no account filed
June 1999HailHaxtun-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Phillips 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
Paoli8.4 miles7
Holyoke17.6 miles6
Amherst24.6 miles8

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 HaxtunAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q944008The 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 204719. 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.