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.
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
Hotchkiss Hotellisted 1984
Hotchkiss Methodist Episcopal Churchlisted 2009- Hotchkiss Homesteadlisted 2011
Population over time
2 figuresHotchkiss 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 944 | |
| 2020 | 875 | -69 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1956 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Hotchkiss quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1967 USGS Hotchkiss quadrangle1:24000
- 1968 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Paonia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
166 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 72 |
| Natural | 53 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 14 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Hotchkiss Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 7 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Hotchkiss Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 7 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 7 September 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | JAY |
| 6 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 5 September 2000 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Southwest District, Montrose | OAK |
| 4 September 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4.0 acres | Hotchkiss Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 30 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | N/A |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Placers | Gold | Past Producer | 1874 | |
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| North Fork Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Gravel |
Storms near this place
10 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Flash Flood | Hotchkiss | $1,400,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Dust Devil | Hotchkiss | $3,000 | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hotchkiss | - | A peak wind gust of 63 MPH was measured by the automated Mesonet weather station 3 miles north-northwest of Hotchkiss. |
| October 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hotchkiss | - | An automated weather station three miles north-northwest of Hotchkiss recorded a peak wind gust of 70 MPH. |
| July 2014 | Flash Flood | Hotchkiss | - | 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 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Hotchkiss | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hotchkiss | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hotchkiss | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hotchkiss | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Heavy Rain | Hotchkiss | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Hotchkiss | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2303157 | The 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.






