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Howard, Colorado

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Cotopaxi census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81233. It stands on Howard Creek. The Survey maps it on the Howard quadrangle. 852 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,716 feet above sea level.

Howard within Fremont County

Population over time

2 figures

Howard grew from 723 to 852 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
2010723
2020852+129 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Howard between 1992 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. 12 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
Natural12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
5 September 2018Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestSTOUT CREEK
13 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorence Fire Protection DistrictN/A
18 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Arkansas Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
16 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHoward Fire DepartmentN/A
1 August 1994Naturalunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficeKERR GULCH
28 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHoward Fire DepartmentN/A
26 July 2003Naturalunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficeHOWARD
22 July 2009Naturalunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficeSTOUT CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Howard: 10 producers, 9 past producers, 8 occurrences, 4 prospects. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Limestone, General, Uranium, Feldspar. 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
Calcite QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, CalciumPast Producer
Howard ProspectFeldspar, SilicaPast Producer
Howard Sand GulchFeldspar, SilicaPast Producer
Knob HillFeldspar, Mica, GarnetProspectBiotite, Garnet, Muscovite, Quartz
Ogden ProspectFeldspar, MicaProspectMicrocline, Muscovite
Pine Canyon LodeUranium, CopperProspectMalachite
Schaaf ProspectMica, FeldsparOccurrenceFeldspar, Mica
Taylor Gulch QuarryLimestone, General, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducerLimestone
Triangle VClayProducer
Vol-Poz #1-3Volcanic MaterialsOccurrenceAsh

Every working recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Howard in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2015: 2 hail, 1 lightning. 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 2008LightningHoward$150,000no account filed
July 2015HailHoward-no account filed
July 2015HailHoward-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fremont 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
Wellsville4.8 miles19
Vallie5.0 miles19
Coaldale7.1 miles18
Pleasanton7.4 miles17
Cotopaxi9.5 miles17
Whitehorn13.7 miles15
Texas Creek13.7 miles15
Echo15.7 miles15

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 HowardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5918887The 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 191723. 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.