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Rye, Colorado

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Colorado City-Rye census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81069. It stands on North Muddy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rye quadrangle. 206 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,801 feet above sea level.

Rye within Pueblo County

Population over time

2 figures

Rye grew from 153 to 206 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
2010153
2020206+53 (+35%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 23 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

131 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Rye between 1992 and 2020, burning about 183 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined94
Natural26
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
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
3 September 1995Naturalunder an acrePueblo Countynot named
28 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRye Fire Protection DepartmentUNKNOWN
27 September 1992Naturalunder an acreHuerfano Countynot named
18 September 1995Naturalunder an acrePueblo Countynot named
14 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRye Fire Protection DepartmentUNKNOWN
9 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRye Fire Protection DepartmentUNKNOWN
8 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRye Fire Protection DepartmentUNKNOWN
8 August 2016Naturalunder an acreRye Fire Protection DepartmentUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pueblo County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Rye: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Pueblo County

Storms near this place

28 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rye in 28 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 17 hail, 10 heavy rain, 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
May 2023Heavy RainRye-There was 1.5 inches of rain that fell.
July 2022Heavy RainRye-Heavy rainfall of 1.05 inches.
July 2021Heavy RainRye-Heavy rainfall of 1.93 inches.
August 2021Heavy RainRye-Heavy rainfall of 3.68 inches.
August 2021Heavy RainRye-Heavy rainfall of 3.81 inches.
July 2021Heavy RainRye-Heavy rainfall of 2.50 inches. Greenhorn Creek was above the bridge in Rye, along with a road closure.
May 2021Heavy RainRye-Heavy rain of 1.59 inches, 1 mile west of Rye.
May 2021Heavy RainRye-Heavy rain of 3.40 inches, 1 mile west southwest Rye.
July 2021Heavy RainRye-no account filed
August 2021Heavy RainRye-no account filed
May 2017HailRye-no account filed
July 2014HailRye-no account filed
July 2014HailRye-no account filed
July 2014HailRye-no account filed
June 2008HailRye-no account filed
August 2008HailRye-no account filed
August 2008HailRye-no account filed
June 2007HailRye-no account filed
June 2006HailRye-no account filed
July 2005HailRye-no account filed
July 2005HailRye-no account filed
May 2003HailRye-no account filed
June 2000HailRye-no account filed
June 2000HailRye-no account filed
June 2000HailRye-no account filed
August 1998HailRye-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindRye-no account filed
May 1995HailRye-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pueblo 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
Cuerna Verde Park2.2 miles23
Greenhorn4.2 miles17
Colorado City5.3 miles17
Valley View10.3 miles22
Beulah Valley10.4 miles22
Cedar Grove10.5 miles22
Beulah10.9 miles22
Goodpasture11.0 miles22

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 RyeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2272311The 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 193917. 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.