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Hayden, Colorado

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Hayden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81639. It lies near Coal Bank Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Hayden quadrangle. 1,941 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,434 feet above sea level.

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Hayden within Routt County

On record in Hayden

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 6 records

Population over time

2 figures

Hayden grew from 1,810 to 1,941 between 2010 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
20101,810
20201,941+131 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Hayden between 1992 and 2014, burning about 1,140 acres in total. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresNorthwest District, CraigGUNRANGE
4 August 1995Naturalunder an acreRoutt Countynot named
17 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,010 acresNorthwest District, CraigCOG
4 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersHAYDEN
30 July 1995Natural2.0 acresRoutt Countynot named
21 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresYampa Valley Regional AirportUNKNOWN
15 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
10 July 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreRoutt Countynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Routt County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Hayden: 6 past producers, 2 occurrences. 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Routt County

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hayden in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
September 1997HailHayden$50,000no account filed
April 2006FloodHayden$10,000no account filed
April 2023FloodHayden$1,000Rapid snowmelt resulted in Dry Creek, which runs underneath Highway 40, coming out of its banks. As a result, Highway 40 was closed and shut down in both directions from Craig to Steamboat Springs due to safety concerns. Schools in Hayden were closed. Flood waters did not recede for several days.
April 2023FloodHayden$1,000Rapid snowmelt resulted in Dry Creek, which runs underneath S Popular Street, coming out of its banks. As a result, S Popular Street near Harvest Drive was closed due to flooding. Flood waters did not recede for several days.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindHayden-Wind gusts estimated to be in the 70 to 75 mph range uprooted or snapped some trees and blew the roof off of a house.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindHayden-Hayden ASOS reported 59 mph wind gust.
June 2010HailHayden-Hail up to 3/4 of an inch in diameter was reported in Hayden. Hail covered the ground for a couple of hours.
July 2010HailHayden-Penny sized hail, heavy rainfall and gusty winds were reported near Hayden. The electrical power was temporarily off in the area due to the storm.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindHayden-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindHayden-no account filed
June 1996HailHayden-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Routt 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
Mount Harris6.0 miles17
Bear River (historical)7.5 miles19
Elkhead10.9 miles21
McGregor11.8 miles19
Milner12.6 miles19
Pagoda13.8 miles19
Dunckley13.8 miles20
Mystic14.8 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 HaydenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2163978The 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 201992. 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.