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Sedgwick, Colorado

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Julesburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80749. The Survey maps it on the Sedgwick quadrangle. 172 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 627 feet above sea level.

Sedgwick within Sedgwick County

Population over time

3 figures

Sedgwick fell from 191 to 172 between 2000 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
2000191
2010146-45 (-24%)
2020172+26 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Sedgwick between 1994 and 2018, burning about 240 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
23 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSedgwick Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
7 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersSEDGWICK
3 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSedgwick Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
31 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersSEDGWICK
28 July 2015Railroad operations and maintenance200 acresSedgwick Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
19 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSedgwick Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
6 June 2018Natural15 acresSedgwick Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
22 June 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSedgwick Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sedgwick County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Sedgwick: 7 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSedimentary
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSedimentary

Every working recorded in Sedgwick County

Storms near this place

50 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sedgwick in 50 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 32 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 1 lightning. 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
June 2022Tornado (EFU)Sedgwick-A tornado touched down in an open field; no damage was observed.
June 2022Tornado (EFU)Sedgwick-A tornado touched down in an open field; no damage was observed.
September 2013FloodSedgwick-The extent if the damage was minimal and confined to areas west of Sedgwick which included County Roads 1,3,5,7 and 41.
June 2011Tornado (EF0)Sedgwick-A tornado touched down briefly but did no damage.
July 2001LightningSedgwick-Lightning ignited a fire in the basement of a home causing minor damage.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindSedgwick-Damaging thunderstorm winds to 80 mph blew over an 8-foot by 10-foot shed.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindSedgwick-Strong thunderstorm winds blew two semi-trucks over on I-76.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSedgwick-no account filed
May 2019HailSedgwick-no account filed
May 2019HailSedgwick-no account filed
May 2019HailSedgwick-no account filed
June 2018HailSedgwick-no account filed
August 2016HailSedgwick-no account filed
April 2015Thunderstorm WindSedgwick-no account filed
June 2013HailSedgwick-no account filed
April 2012HailSedgwick-no account filed
June 2011HailSedgwick-no account filed
June 2011HailSedgwick-no account filed
June 2011HailSedgwick-no account filed
August 2011HailSedgwick-no account filed
June 2010HailSedgwick-no account filed
June 2010HailSedgwick-no account filed
June 2010HailSedgwick-no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindSedgwick-no account filed
July 2009Thunderstorm WindSedgwick-no account filed
April 2007HailSedgwick-no account filed
May 2005HailSedgwick-no account filed
June 2005HailSedgwick-no account filed
June 2005HailSedgwick-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindSedgwick-no account filed
June 2005HailSedgwick-no account filed
June 2005HailSedgwick-no account filed
June 2005HailSedgwick-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindSedgwick-no account filed
June 2004HailSedgwick-no account filed
June 2003HailSedgwick-no account filed
April 2001HailSedgwick-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindSedgwick-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindSedgwick-no account filed
August 1999Tornado (F0)Sedgwick-no account filed
June 1999HailSedgwick-no account filed
August 1999Tornado (F0)Sedgwick-no account filed
May 1999HailSedgwick-no account filed
May 1999HailSedgwick-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindSedgwick-no account filed
June 1998HailSedgwick-no account filed
May 1998HailSedgwick-no account filed
August 1997HailSedgwick-no account filed
May 1996HailSedgwick-no account filed
July 1996HailSedgwick-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sedgwick 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
Ovid7.5 miles12
Fort Sedgwick (historical)7.7 miles12
Fort Julesburg (historical)8.9 miles10
Julesburg14.3 miles10

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 SedgwickAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q598878The 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 182694. 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.