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.
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 figuresLaporte 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,450 | |
| 2020 | 2,409 | -41 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 28 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.
- 1906 USGS Fort Collins quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1907 USGS Livermore quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1908 USGS Fort Collins quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1909 USGS Livermore quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS LaPorte quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Laporte quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1964 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Fort Collins quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
323 since 2003Regional 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/undetermined | 266 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Smoking | 14 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Fireworks | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Poudre Fire Authority | UNKNOWN |
| 30 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Poudre Fire Authority | UNKNOWN |
| 3 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Poudre Fire Authority | UNKNOWN |
| 27 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Poudre Fire Authority | UNKNOWN |
| 26 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | FORT COLLINS |
| 26 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | LAPORTE |
| 22 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Poudre Fire Authority | UNKNOWN |
| 22 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | FORT COLLINS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 22 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Challenger | Tungsten | Producer | ||
| Graphite Nos 1 To 7 | Graphite | Producer | ||
| Wahketa Lease | Uranium, Vanadium | Past Producer | 1955 | |
| Unknown | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Unknown | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Clay | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Unnamed Mine | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Boettcher Cement Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1994 | Hail | Laporte | $400,000 | A 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 2018 | Hail | Laporte | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laporte | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Laporte | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Laporte | - | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Hail | LaPorte | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bellvue | 1.8 miles | 28 | |
| Mountain View | 2.4 miles | 31 | |
| Kenyon Corner | 3.6 miles | 29 | |
| Fort Collins | 4.0 miles | 29 | |
| Buckingham | 4.5 miles | 29 | |
| Andersonville | 4.8 miles | 29 | |
| Drakes | 5.8 miles | 29 | |
| Black Hollow Junction | 6.1 miles | 29 |
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 Laporte | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1686401 | 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 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.












