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Orchard City, Colorado

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Cedaredge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81418. It lies near Happy Hollow Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Orchard City quadrangle. 3,142 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,446 feet above sea level.

Orchard City within Delta County

On record in Orchard City

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Orchard City grew from 3,119 to 3,142 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
20103,119
20203,142+23 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

54 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Orchard City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 347 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Recreation and ceremony21
Smoking6
Debris and open burning3
Natural1

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
22 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelta County Fire Protection District #1UNKNOWN
20 August 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCedaredge Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
18 August 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCedaredge Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
16 August 2015Naturalunder an acreHotchkiss Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
9 July 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCedaredge Fire DepartmentN/A
7 July 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresCedaredge Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
21 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelta County Fire Protection District #1UNKNOWN
15 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delta 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 Orchard City: 5 occurrences, 4 unknowns, 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, Uranium, Vanadium. 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
Donegan LeaseUranium, VanadiumPast Producer
Davis and Spaulding PropertyAluminumUnknown
VariousSand and Gravel, Construction, AluminumUnknown
Delta County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Hallenbeck Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Delta County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orchard City in 1 storm report in 2023: 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 2023Thunderstorm WindOrchard City-Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph downed power lines and knocked over some trees 1 mile west-southwest of Eckert.

Every storm recorded in Delta 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
Eckert1.1 miles14
Cory2.9 miles14
Austin3.4 miles14
Payne4.1 miles14
Saxton4.1 miles14
Read4.3 miles14
Saunders5.1 miles16
Cedaredge5.6 miles14

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 Orchard CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2076744The 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 203073. 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.