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Hillrose, Colorado

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Brush census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80733. It stands on Camp Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brush East quadrangle. 312 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,173 feet above sea level.

Hillrose within Morgan County

Population over time

2 figures

Hillrose grew from 264 to 312 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
2010264
2020312+48 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Hillrose between 1993 and 2019, burning about 1,204 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined13
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
31 August 2004Natural1,000 acresFort Collins Interagency Dispatch CenterSAGE BRUSH
1 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined150 acresMorgan CountyCHAPMAN
22 July 1993Naturalunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkSEVEN PINE
18 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHillrose-Snyder Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
9 June 2018Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreBrush Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
22 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersHILLROSE
1 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
4 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersHILLROSE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Hillrose: 3 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand

Every working recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

27 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hillrose in 27 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 20 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
July 2018Tornado (EF2)Hillrose-A tornado touched down and uprooted many trees. Outbuildings were extensively damaged or destroyed.
June 2016HailHillrose-Large hail damaged vehicles on Interstate 76.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindHillrose-Large branches, 6 to 8 inches in diameter, were blown down.
September 2001HailHillrose-Large hail, up to golfball size, damaged 10 percent of the corn crops in and near Hillrose. Several windows in town were also broken.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindHillrose-Intense straight line winds estimated to 80 mph (70 kts) lifted the roof off a barn. A modular home adjacent to the structure was heavily damaged. A wooden beam from the barn smashed into the wall of the home. Five vehicles, three parked inside the barn, were also damaged.
August 1997Flash FloodHillrose-Heavy rain, in excess of 4 inches, caused extensive flooding problems in the Hillrose area. Floodwaters covered portions of Highway 6, east of Hillrose. In addition, several basements in the town were flooded.
May 2023HailHillrose-no account filed
July 2022HailHillrose-no account filed
May 2021HailHillrose-no account filed
August 2019HailHillrose-no account filed
July 2018HailHillrose-no account filed
July 2018HailHillrose-no account filed
September 2016HailHillrose-no account filed
June 2012HailHillrose-no account filed
June 2010HailHillrose-no account filed
June 2010HailHillrose-no account filed
July 2007HailHillrose-no account filed
June 2005HailHillrose-no account filed
July 2005HailHillrose-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindHillrose-no account filed
May 2004HailHillrose-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindHillrose-no account filed
May 2004HailHillrose-no account filed
September 2001HailHillrose-no account filed
September 2001HailHillrose-no account filed
June 1998HailHillrose-no account filed
June 1997Tornado (F0)Hillrose-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Camden2.1 miles11
Cooper2.4 miles11
Union3.7 miles8
Snyder4.0 miles11
Balzac6.2 miles10
Brush7.1 miles11
Nelson8.9 miles11
Dodd10.2 miles11

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 HillroseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2303283The 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 182927. 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.