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Sedalia, Colorado

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Sedalia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80135. It stands on Jarre Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sedalia quadrangle. 177 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,840 feet above sea level.

Sedalia within Douglas County

On record in Sedalia

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 7 records

Population over time

2 figures

Sedalia fell from 206 to 177 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
2010206
2020177-29 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 26 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

198 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 198 fires within 5 miles of Sedalia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,372 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined133
Natural13
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking10
Arson/incendiarism9
Fireworks7
Recreation and ceremony6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
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
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCastle Rock Fire & Rescue DepartmentN/A
5 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
4 September 2017Smokingunder an acreCastle Rock Fire & Rescue DepartmentUNKNOWN
27 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
2 September 2017Arson/incendiarism3.5 acresWest Douglas County Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
2 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMountain Communities Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
17 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
17 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWest Douglas County Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Sedalia: 7 producers, 2 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Uranium, REE. 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
Louviers PlantREEProducer
Molycorp Inc Louviers PlantREEProducer
Penley No. 1 LeaseUraniumUnknown
Penley No.1 LeaseUraniumOccurrenceCarnotite
Ute MineClayProducer
WildcatClayPast Producer
Adams Aggregates IncStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
QuarryStoneProducer
QuarryStoneProducer
SedaliaStoneProducer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sedalia in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 14 hail, 4 lightning, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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 2017LightningSedalia1 killed, 1 hurt, $5,000A woman and her horse were killed after they were struck by lightning. A 15-year-old girl also sustained serious injuries and was treated for electrocution.
August 2000LightningSedalia$2,000,000Lightning sparked a blaze which gutted a 10-unit apartment building in Highlands Ranch. Twenty-eight people were left homeless.
May 2009LightningSedalia$200,000no account filed
June 2012Flash FloodSedalia-Heavy rain allowed Plum Creek to exceed flood stage by nearly a foot at Sedalia which resulted in lowland flooding.
June 2003LightningSedalia-Lightning blew a hole in the roof of a home in Highlands Ranch. The bolt knocked several holes in the bedroom ceilings and damaged the home's electrical system.
June 1994HailSedalia-Hail up to dime-size covered Interstate 25 south of Sedalia (22 miles south of Denver). Heavy rain caused local flooding on the Interstate.
June 2023HailSedalia-no account filed
June 2023HailSedalia-no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindSedalia-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindSedalia-no account filed
June 2005HailSedalia-no account filed
July 2003HailSedalia-no account filed
July 2003HailSedalia-no account filed
April 2003HailSedalia-no account filed
April 2003HailSedalia-no account filed
April 2003HailSedalia-no account filed
August 2003HailSedalia-no account filed
July 2002HailSedalia-no account filed
July 2001HailSedalia-no account filed
August 2000HailSedalia-no account filed
June 1999HailSedalia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Orsa2.6 miles26
Kellytown3.6 miles26
Castle Pines Village3.6 miles26
Castle Pines3.7 miles26
Louviers3.8 miles33
Castle Pines North4.2 miles26
Happy Canyon4.7 miles28
Beverly Hills5.1 miles26

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 SedaliaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1995206The 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 204740. 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.