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Kersey, Colorado

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Kersey-Gill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80644. The Survey maps it on the Kersey quadrangle. 1,495 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,619 feet above sea level.

Kersey within Weld County

Population over time

3 figures

Kersey grew from 1,389 to 1,495 between 2000 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
20001,389
20101,454+65 (+5%)
20201,495+41 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

182 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 182 fires within 5 miles of Kersey between 2010 and 2020, burning about 14,809 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 8 were 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/undetermined138
Natural10
Smoking9
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

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
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersKERSEY
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined750 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
20 September 2010Natural1,000 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
20 September 2010Natural10 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
18 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined12,699 acresSoutheast Weld Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
5 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersKERSEY
4 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersKERSEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Weld County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Kersey: 13 producers, 9 occurrences. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)OccurrenceSedimentary
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Weld County

Storms near this place

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kersey in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2011: 8 hail, 6 tornado, 2 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 1994HailKersey$50,000Hail up to tennis ball-size pummeled portions of Larimer and Weld Counties, causing considerable damage to buildings and vehicles as well as crops.
June 1995HailKersey-A large swath of damaging hail up to one inch in diameter was reported at numerous locations between and including Erie to Kersey. Numerous reports of crop damage had been reported over southern Weld County.
June 1995Tornado (F0)Kersey-A small tornado briefly touched down with no damage reported.
June 1995Tornado (F0)Kersey-Brief touchdown in open field.
June 1995Tornado (F0)Kersey-Brief landspout on open land.
June 1995Tornado (F0)Kersey-A tornado was on the ground for 30 seconds in an open field.
July 1994Tornado (F0)Kersey-Spotters reported a brief tornado touchdown in an open field south of Kersey (37 miles east southeast of Fort Collins). No damage or injuries was reported.
June 2011HailKersey-no account filed
September 2010LightningKersey-no account filed
September 2010LightningKersey-no account filed
July 2003HailKersey-no account filed
July 2002HailKersey-no account filed
September 1999HailKersey-no account filed
August 1996Tornado (F0)Kersey-no account filed
June 1995HailKersey-no account filed
May 1994HailKersey-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
Spanish Village0.8 miles18
Kuner3.9 miles14
Auburn4.2 miles18
Gill4.7 miles18
Alden4.9 miles18
Cloverly5.9 miles21
Jackson Field6.7 miles21
Garden City6.8 miles21

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 KerseyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1816209The 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 204695. 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.