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La Salle, Colorado

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the La Salle-Gilcrest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80645. The Survey maps it on the La Salle quadrangle. 2,359 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,678 feet above sea level.

La Salle within Weld County

Population over time

2 figures

La Salle grew from 1,955 to 2,359 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
20101,955
20202,359+404 (+21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

377 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 377 fires within 5 miles of La Salle between 2010 and 2020, burning about 75 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined328
Smoking13
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use7
Fireworks4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Debris and open burning1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
7 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEvans Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEvans Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersGREELEY
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersLASALLE
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
4 September 2014Smokingunder an acreEvans Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersGREELEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Weld County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of La Salle: 4 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory), Iron. 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
Great Western Sugar CoIronProducer
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)OccurrenceSedimentary
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Weld County

Storms near this place

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Salle in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 16 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. 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
June 1996LightningLa Salle$1,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindLa Salle$50Thunderstorm winds, gusting to 56 mph (49 knots), blew across portions of Weld County. The winds knocked down trees and fences in La Salle (25 miles southeast of Fort Collins).
June 2024Thunderstorm WindLa Salle-Multiple powerlines down 22628 county road 39, about 1.5 miles south of La Salle.
June 1995HailLa Salle-Brief landspout on open land.
April 2025HailLa Salle-no account filed
May 2023Thunderstorm WindLa Salle-no account filed
June 2021HailLa Salle-no account filed
July 2020HailLa Salle-no account filed
September 2019HailLa Salle-no account filed
September 2019HailLa Salle-no account filed
August 2016HailLa Salle-no account filed
May 2015HailLa Salle-no account filed
May 2015HailLa Salle-no account filed
August 2014HailLa Salle-no account filed
June 2012HailLa Salle-no account filed
July 2003HailLa Salle-no account filed
September 1999HailLa Salle-no account filed
September 1999HailLa Salle-no account filed
September 1999HailLa Salle-no account filed
September 1999Tornado (F0)La Salle-no account filed
June 1997HailLa Salle-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
East La Salle1.1 miles18
Evans2.0 miles21
Rosedale2.5 miles21
Hambert3.0 miles18
Garden City3.2 miles21
Auburn3.7 miles18
Peckham4.1 miles20
Jackson Field4.1 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 La SalleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2272350The 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 180726. 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.