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Keenesburg, Colorado

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Keenesburg-Hudson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80643. The Survey maps it on the Keenesburg quadrangle. 1,250 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,944 feet above sea level.

Keenesburg within Weld County

Population over time

2 figures

Keenesburg grew from 1,127 to 1,250 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
20101,127
20201,250+123 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

124 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Keenesburg between 2011 and 2020, burning about 2,135 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/undetermined109
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Natural2
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSoutheast Weld Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
7 September 2015Smokingunder an acreHudson Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSoutheast Weld Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
4 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSoutheast Weld Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
30 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSoutheast Weld Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
29 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSoutheast Weld Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
22 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersKEENESBURG
14 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSoutheast Weld Fire Protection DistrictN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Weld County

Storms near this place

53 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Keenesburg in 53 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 31 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 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
July 1996HailKeenesburg$200,000no account filed
June 2018Flash FloodKeenesburg$10,000Several roads were damaged. The frontage road at Interstate 76 and Weld County Road 53 which was inundated by floodwaters and completely washed. County roads 16 and 63, and county road 49 and State Highway 52 were partially flooded.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindKeenesburg-Mesonet station CO038 located along I-76 between Keenesburg and Hudson.
July 2025HailKeenesburg-Report of penny to quarter size hail on the southwest side of Keenesburg.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindKeenesburg-Severe thunderstorm uprooted some trees and snapped tree limbs. Some roof damage was observed along with damage to street signs. Damage to several doors to small outbuildings was also reported.
May 2019Tornado (EF0)Keenesburg-A tornado touched down briefly in an open field. No damage was reported.
August 2017HailKeenesburg-Strong winds and large hail accompanied a thunderstorm that struck between Keenseburg and Roggen. One farmstead reported the crops were completely flattened in one field. In addition, sixty-six head of cattle were injured and later euthanized.
August 2013Tornado (EF0)Keenesburg-A tornado touched down briefly in an open field. No damage was reported.
May 2010Tornado (EF0)Keenesburg-A tornado touched down in an open field; no damage was reported.
July 2000FloodKeenesburg-Over 2 inches of very heavy rain caused flooding along an Interstate 76 off ramp near Keenseburg. The fire department rescued 15 stranded motorists, as high water inundated sections of the off ramp and adjacent interstate. Basements were also flooded in Keenseburg. One home reportedly had seven feet of standing water in the basement before the rain subsided.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindKeenesburg-Severe thunderstorm winds rumbled across portions of the northern foothills and the northeast plains. The storms produced wind gusts averaging 65 mph and hail up to dime size. Wind gusts to 77 mph (67 knots) were reported in Brighton at 640 pm and Platteville at 725 pm. Numerous trees and power poles were downed by the winds. One power pole fell onto spectators at a high school graduation ceremony in Commerce City (7 miles northeast of Denver), injuring 6 people. In Greeley, the winds blew over 100 feet of wrought iron fence, which was anchored in concrete. Trees fell onto a home and a bank in Greeley. In Fort Lupton, trees fell onto two parked cars, knocking out the windshields. Lightning struck and injured a man in Loveland (12 miles south southeast of Fort Collins), while he was working on his car.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindKeenesburg-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindKeenesburg-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindKeenesburg-no account filed
May 2019Thunderstorm WindKeenesburg-no account filed
September 2019Thunderstorm WindKeenesburg-no account filed
May 2019HailKeenesburg-no account filed
August 2017Thunderstorm WindKeenesburg-no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindKeenesburg-no account filed
June 2015HailKeenesburg-no account filed
June 2015HailKeenesburg-no account filed
August 2014HailKeenesburg-no account filed
June 2013HailKeenesburg-no account filed
May 2012HailKeenesburg-no account filed
May 2011HailKeenesburg-no account filed
May 2011HailKeenesburg-no account filed
May 2010HailKeenesburg-no account filed
May 2010HailKeenesburg-no account filed
June 2010HailKeenesburg-no account filed
June 2010HailKeenesburg-no account filed
June 2006HailKeenesburg-no account filed
April 2005HailKeenesburg-no account filed
June 2005HailKeenesburg-no account filed
August 2004HailKeenesburg-no account filed
April 2003HailKeenesburg-no account filed
July 2002HailKeenesburg-no account filed
May 2001HailKeenesburg-no account filed
July 2001HailKeenesburg-no account filed
August 2001HailKeenesburg-no account filed
February 2000HailKeenesburg-no account filed
May 1998HailKeenesburg-no account filed
July 1998HailKeenesburg-no account filed
July 1996HailKeenesburg-no account filed
June 1996Funnel CloudKeenesburg-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindKeenesburg-no account filed
July 1996Tornado (F0)Keenesburg-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindKeenesburg-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindKeenesburg-no account filed
August 1996HailKeenesburg-no account filed
August 1996HailKeenesburg-no account filed
July 1995HailKeenesburg-no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindKeenesburg-no account filed
May 1993Thunderstorm WindKeenesburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Weld 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
Roy2.4 miles20
Krauss4.1 miles15
Sloan4.3 miles15
Johnson4.3 miles15
Tampa4.5 miles13
Prospect Valley6.1 miles15
Hudson6.9 miles24
Roggen8.8 miles12

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 KeenesburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2303299The 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 204699. 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.

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.