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Shamrock, Colorado

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the East Adams census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80701. The Survey maps it on the Shamrock quadrangle. It stands 4,902 feet above sea level.

Shamrock within Adams County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Shamrock in 2020, burning about 4,200 acres in total. None 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/undetermined1

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
19 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined4,200 acresAdams County OfficeSHAMROCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Storms near this place

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shamrock in 27 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 14 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 6 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
September 1993HailShamrock$500no account filed
September 1993Thunderstorm WindShamrock$500no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindShamrock-The report was from mesonet station CSU71.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindShamrock-Report from Ambient Weather Network.
August 2024Flash FloodShamrock-US Highway 36 closed, due to hail accumulation and water on road.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindShamrock-Large tree limb, 6 inches in diameter, snapped. Marble hail and torrential rain.
August 2024Tornado (EFU)Shamrock-Landspout tornado. Estimated to be 4-5 miles south/southeast of Prospect Rd and CR 152 in eastern Adams County. The tornado occurred over an open field with no damage.
July 2018Tornado (EF0)Shamrock-A tornado touched down in open country. No damage was observed.
May 2016Tornado (EF0)Shamrock-A tornado touched down briefly but did no damage.
August 2015Tornado (EF0)Shamrock-A weak tornado touched down briefly but no damage was observed.
April 1994HailShamrock-Marble-size hail, accumulating to a depth of two inches, damaged a wheat crop near Shamrock (37 miles southwest of Akron).
July 1994Tornado (F0)Shamrock-The public reported a brief tornado touchdown in an open field southeast of Shamrock (53 miles east northeast of Denver). No damage or injuries was reported.
July 1994Tornado (F0)Shamrock-Spotters reported a brief tornado touchdown in an open field southeast of Shamrock (53 miles east northeast of Denver). No damage or injuries was reported.
May 2024HailShamrock-no account filed
August 2024Thunderstorm WindShamrock-no account filed
May 2023HailShamrock-no account filed
May 2023HailShamrock-no account filed
May 2023HailShamrock-no account filed
June 2023HailShamrock-no account filed
June 2021HailShamrock-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindShamrock-no account filed
August 2020HailShamrock-no account filed
June 2015HailShamrock-no account filed
June 1994HailShamrock-no account filed
June 1994HailShamrock-no account filed
July 1994HailShamrock-no account filed
September 1993HailShamrock-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams 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
Leader12.8 miles16
Cabin Creek15.1 miles15
Living Springs25.7 miles15
Comanche26.6 miles15
Strasburg28.7 miles14
Bennett33.5 miles17
Manila38.5 miles14
Watkins43.0 miles19

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.

Wikidata item Q7487631The 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 183046. 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.

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.