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Maybell, Colorado

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Maybell-Powder Wash census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81640. It stands on Deception Creek. The Survey maps it on the Maybell quadrangle. 76 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,922 feet above sea level.

Maybell within Moffat County

On record in Maybell

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Maybell grew from 72 to 76 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
201072
202076+4 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Maybell between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,114 acres in total. 102 started naturally. None was 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
Natural102
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony1
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 2002Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, CraigCLOSE CALL
7 September 1995Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, CraigEAGLE
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, CraigMATTINGLY
2 September 1995Natural1.0 acresNorthwest District, CraigENERGY
2 September 1995Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, CraigVOLUNTEER
2 September 1994Natural1.0 acresDinosaur National MonumentHOLLAND
16 September 2007Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, CraigNORTH HILL
14 September 2017Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, CraigEAGLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Moffat County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Maybell: 5 occurrences, 4 past producers, 4 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Uranium, Vanadium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lucky Boy ClaimUranium, VanadiumPast Producer
Orr and T and L ClaimsUranium, VanadiumPast Producer1955
UnknownUranium, VanadiumOccurrence
Airborne Anomaly 56-15UraniumUnknown
Hudson Claim GroupUraniumUnknown1954
Johnson M.C.S.UraniumPast Producer1954
Lucky ClaimUraniumUnknown1954
Maybell PlantUraniumProducer
Orr ClaimsUraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Moffat County

Storms near this place

12 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maybell in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2014: 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 wildfire. 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
September 2007HailMaybell$5,000Hail from 3/4 inch to 1 inch diameter occurred. The hail broke windows on some homes. The hail came down with such force in one area that it punched holes in a 5 gallon plastic bucket.
May 2008FloodMaybell$1,000The Yampa River at Deerlodge Park exceeded flood stage. The river also exceeded bankfull in the Maybell vicinity and caused flooding of a yard near the river.
July 2014Flash FloodMaybell-Highway 318 was closed for several hours due to a large amount of debris that was deposited on the roadway from flash flood waters.
June 2009HailMaybell-Hail up to one inch in diameter fell in the town of Maybell. Gardens were damaged.
June 2009HailMaybell-Nickel-size hail pummeled the town of Maybell. Gardens that were struck by hail earlier in the day were ravaged even further.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindMaybell-no account filed
September 2007Funnel CloudMaybell-no account filed
July 2003WildfireMaybell-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindMaybell-no account filed
July 2000WildfireMaybell-no account filed
May 2000HailMaybell-no account filed
June 1997Flash FloodMaybell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Moffat 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
Sunbeam6.2 miles13
Juniper Hot Springs7.9 miles17
Lay10.9 miles13
Elk Springs22.2 miles15
Axial22.4 miles17
Iles Grove24.6 miles17
Loyd25.1 miles17
Hamilton27.2 miles15

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 MaybellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6796970The 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 170708. 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.