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.
Population over time
2 figuresLa 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,955 | |
| 2020 | 2,359 | +404 (+21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 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.
- 1902 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1950 USGS La Salle quadrangle1:24000
- 1951 USGS La Salle quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
377 since 2010Regional 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/undetermined | 328 |
| Smoking | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Fireworks | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | N/A |
| 7 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Evans Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 7 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Evans Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 6 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | GREELEY |
| 5 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | LASALLE |
| 4 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | N/A |
| 4 September 2014 | Smoking | under an acre | Evans Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | GREELEY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Western Sugar Co | Iron | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Gravel | |
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Gravel | |
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Gravel |
Storms near this place
21 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1996 | Lightning | La Salle | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | La Salle | $50 | Thunderstorm 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | La Salle | - | Multiple powerlines down 22628 county road 39, about 1.5 miles south of La Salle. |
| June 1995 | Hail | La Salle | - | Brief landspout on open land. |
| April 2025 | Hail | La Salle | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | La Salle | - | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Hail | La Salle | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | La Salle | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | La Salle | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | La Salle | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Hail | La Salle | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | La Salle | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | La Salle | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | La Salle | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | La Salle | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | La Salle | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | La Salle | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | La Salle | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | La Salle | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Tornado (F0) | La Salle | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | La Salle | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| East La Salle | 1.1 miles | 18 | |
| Evans | 2.0 miles | 21 | |
| Rosedale | 2.5 miles | 21 | |
| Hambert | 3.0 miles | 18 | |
| Garden City | 3.2 miles | 21 | |
| Auburn | 3.7 miles | 18 | |
| Peckham | 4.1 miles | 20 | |
| Jackson Field | 4.1 miles | 21 |
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 Salle | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2272350 | 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 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.









