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Laporte, Colorado

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Fort Collins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80535. It lies near Bingham Hill. The Survey maps it on the Laporte quadrangle. 2,409 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,020 feet above sea level.

Laporte within Larimer County

On record in Laporte

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Laporte fell from 2,450 to 2,409 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
20102,450
20202,409-41 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 28 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

323 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 323 fires within 5 miles of Laporte between 2003 and 2020, burning about 2,154 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined266
Equipment and vehicle use18
Smoking14
Natural9
Fireworks6
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2

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 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN
3 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN
27 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFORT COLLINS
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersLAPORTE
22 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN
22 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFORT COLLINS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Larimer 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 Laporte: 15 producers, 4 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gypsum-Anhydrite, 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
ChallengerTungstenProducer
Graphite Nos 1 To 7GraphiteProducer
Wahketa LeaseUranium, VanadiumPast Producer1955
UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceSedimentary
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence
UnknownClayOccurrenceSedimentary
Unnamed MineGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Unnamed PitClayProducer
Boettcher Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Larimer County

Storms near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Laporte in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2018: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 1994HailLaporte$400,000A line of thunderstorms dropping heavy rain caused significant urban flooding and backed up sewer systems in Lyons. Numerous basements in Lyons were flooded out as well. The main road, extending between Livermore and Red Feather Lakes in Larimer County, was washed out at several locations. Rainfall amounts in upwards of 5.00 inches were reported in northern Larimer county near Virginia Dale.
June 2018HailLaporte-no account filed
August 2017Thunderstorm WindLaporte-no account filed
June 2015HailLaporte-no account filed
July 1996HailLaporte-no account filed
August 1994HailLaPorte-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Larimer 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
Bellvue1.8 miles28
Mountain View2.4 miles31
Kenyon Corner3.6 miles29
Fort Collins4.0 miles29
Buckingham4.5 miles29
Andersonville4.8 miles29
Drakes5.8 miles29
Black Hollow Junction6.1 miles29

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 LaporteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1686401The 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 204672. 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.