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Hotchkiss, Colorado

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Hotchkiss census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81419. It lies near Short Draw. The Survey maps it on the Hotchkiss quadrangle. 875 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,331 feet above sea level.

Hotchkiss within Delta County

On record in Hotchkiss

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Hotchkiss fell from 944 to 875 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
2010944
2020875-69 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

166 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 166 fires within 5 miles of Hotchkiss between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,186 acres in total. 53 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/undetermined72
Natural53
Debris and open burning15
Recreation and ceremony14
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHotchkiss Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
7 September 2013Naturalunder an acreHotchkiss Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
7 September 1993Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseJAY
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
5 September 2000Natural1.0 acresSouthwest District, MontroseOAK
4 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresHotchkiss Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
30 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delta 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 Hotchkiss: 4 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. 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
Unnamed PlacersGoldPast Producer1874
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
North Fork PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Delta County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hotchkiss in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud. 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 1998Flash FloodHotchkiss$1,400,000no account filed
May 2005Dust DevilHotchkiss$3,000no account filed
July 2021Thunderstorm WindHotchkiss-A peak wind gust of 63 MPH was measured by the automated Mesonet weather station 3 miles north-northwest of Hotchkiss.
October 2018Thunderstorm WindHotchkiss-An automated weather station three miles north-northwest of Hotchkiss recorded a peak wind gust of 70 MPH.
July 2014Flash FloodHotchkiss-Thunderstorms brought an area of heavy rainfall from Hotchkiss to areas north of Cedaredge. Flash flooding impacted portions of Hotchkiss and closed a portion of Highway 65 north of Cedaredge which deposited a large amount of debris onto the road.
May 2005Funnel CloudHotchkiss-no account filed
September 2002Thunderstorm WindHotchkiss-no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindHotchkiss-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindHotchkiss-no account filed
August 1999Heavy RainHotchkiss-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delta 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
Lazear3.6 miles17
Rogers Mesa4.2 miles17
Coburn5.5 miles13
Paonia8.3 miles15
Crawford8.8 miles14
Payne9.7 miles14
Austin12.3 miles14
Bowie12.7 miles16

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 HotchkissAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2303157The 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 186534. 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.