Montrose, Colorado

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• Montrose County

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 12 of 16 shown

• Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Lodgelisted 2004
• Denver and Rio Grande Depotlisted 1982
• Gunnison Tunnellisted 1979
• J. V. Lathrop Houselisted 1988
• Methodist Episcopal Church of Montroselisted 1999
• Montrose City Halllisted 1982
• Montrose County Courthouselisted 1994
• Montrose Masonic Temple, Lodge No. 63listed 2004
• Sherman and Ross Block Buildinglisted 2003
• Thomas B. Townsend Houselisted 1980
• US Bureau of Reclamation Project Office Buildinglisted 1991
• US Post Office-Montrose Mainlisted 1986

Every listing in Montrose County

Montrose grew from 19,132 to 20,291 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.

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.

• 1909 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:125000
• 1911 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
• 1956 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Montrose West quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1968 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
• 1983 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 483 fires within 5 miles of Montrose between 1993 and 2020, burning about 812 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 7 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Oak Grove
• Fairview
• Vernal
• Lujane
• Roe

Every fire recorded in Montrose County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Montrose: 11 unknowns, 7 occurrences, 7 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Clay, Lead, Zinc, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Montrose County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Montrose in 30 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 funnel cloud, 5 flood, 4 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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.

Every storm recorded in Montrose County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 203328. 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.