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Lochbuie, Colorado

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Keenesburg-Hudson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80603. The Survey maps it on the Hudson quadrangle. 8,088 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,020 feet above sea level.

Lochbuie within Weld County

Population over time

2 figures

Lochbuie grew from 4,726 to 8,088 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
20104,726
20208,088+3,362 (+71%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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

280 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 280 fires within 5 miles of Lochbuie between 2010 and 2020, burning about 402 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined213
Smoking16
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use10
Fireworks7
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersBRIGHTON
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
6 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGreater Brighton Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
6 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHudson Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGreater Brighton Fire Protection DistrictN/A
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreGreater Brighton Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersHUDSON
28 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreGreater Brighton Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Weld County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Lochbuie: 3 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
UnknownClayOccurrence
UnknownClayProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Weld County

Storms near this place

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lochbuie in 11 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 9 hail, 1 tornado, 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
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLochbuie-Numerous trees were uprooted or snapped.
June 1995Tornado (F0)Lochbuie-Landspout did no damage in open field.
September 1993HailLochbuie-Severe thunderstorms rumbled across portions of Northeast Colorado. Hail up to 1.00-inch in diameter fell over much of the area. Dime-size hail damaged several roofs of residences in Lafayette (18 miles northwest of Denver).
June 2022HailLochbuie-no account filed
June 2018HailLochbuie-no account filed
August 2018HailLochbuie-no account filed
June 2015HailLochbuie-no account filed
May 1997HailLochbuie-no account filed
May 1996HailLochbuie-no account filed
May 1996HailLochbuie-no account filed
July 1996HailLochbuie-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
Tonville0.7 miles24
Powars5.4 miles21
Hudson6.0 miles24
Wattenberg6.5 miles21
Fort Lupton7.4 miles21
Aristocrat Ranchettes7.5 miles21
Roy10.7 miles20
Vollmar11.0 miles20

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 LochbuieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2150323The 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 1669461. 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.