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.
Population over time
2 figuresRye 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 153 | |
| 2020 | 206 | +53 (+35%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 23 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Walsenburg quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Walsenburg quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Walsenburg quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1900 USGS Walsenburg quadrangle1:125000
- 1954 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Rye quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1975 USGS Rye quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Walsenburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Rye quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
131 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 94 |
| Natural | 26 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Pueblo County | not named |
| 28 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Rye Fire Protection Department | UNKNOWN |
| 27 September 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Huerfano County | not named |
| 18 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Pueblo County | not named |
| 14 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Rye Fire Protection Department | UNKNOWN |
| 9 August 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Rye Fire Protection Department | UNKNOWN |
| 8 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Rye Fire Protection Department | UNKNOWN |
| 8 August 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Rye Fire Protection Department | UNKNOWN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
28 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2023 | Heavy Rain | Rye | - | There was 1.5 inches of rain that fell. |
| July 2022 | Heavy Rain | Rye | - | Heavy rainfall of 1.05 inches. |
| July 2021 | Heavy Rain | Rye | - | Heavy rainfall of 1.93 inches. |
| August 2021 | Heavy Rain | Rye | - | Heavy rainfall of 3.68 inches. |
| August 2021 | Heavy Rain | Rye | - | Heavy rainfall of 3.81 inches. |
| July 2021 | Heavy Rain | Rye | - | Heavy rainfall of 2.50 inches. Greenhorn Creek was above the bridge in Rye, along with a road closure. |
| May 2021 | Heavy Rain | Rye | - | Heavy rain of 1.59 inches, 1 mile west of Rye. |
| May 2021 | Heavy Rain | Rye | - | Heavy rain of 3.40 inches, 1 mile west southwest Rye. |
| July 2021 | Heavy Rain | Rye | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Heavy Rain | Rye | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Rye | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Rye | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Rye | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Rye | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Rye | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Rye | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Rye | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Rye | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Rye | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Rye | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Rye | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Rye | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Rye | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Rye | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Rye | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Rye | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rye | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Rye | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cuerna Verde Park | 2.2 miles | 23 | |
| Greenhorn | 4.2 miles | 17 | |
| Colorado City | 5.3 miles | 17 | |
| Valley View | 10.3 miles | 22 | |
| Beulah Valley | 10.4 miles | 22 | |
| Cedar Grove | 10.5 miles | 22 | |
| Beulah | 10.9 miles | 22 | |
| Goodpasture | 11.0 miles | 22 |
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 Rye | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2272311 | The 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.












