Sugar City, Colorado
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Sugar City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81076. The Survey maps it on the Sugar City quadrangle. 259 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,304 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSugar City grew from 258 to 259 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 | 258 | |
| 2020 | 259 | +1 (+0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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 Catlin quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Catlin quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Lamar quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Sugar City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Lamar quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Las Animas quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
12 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Sugar City between 1994 and 2017, burning about 304 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined | 7 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | ORDWAY |
| 16 August 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Ordway Volunteer Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 14 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | SUGAR CITY |
| 8 May 1994 | Smoking | under an acre | Crowley County | not named |
| 3 May 2017 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Ordway Volunteer Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 8 April 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ordway Volunteer Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 21 April 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Crowley County | not named |
| 24 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | SUGAR CITY |
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 Sugar City: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Henry Anticline | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Sand and Gravel |
Storms near this place
35 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sugar City in 35 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 23 hail, 5 tornado, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. The reports record 5 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sugar City | 5 hurt, $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Flash Flood | Sugar City | $30,000 | Slow moving thunderstorms caused very heavy rain which flooded and closed highway 96 for a time. Several homes were evacuated just east of Sugar City. Residences had water in their basements, in some cases more than four feet deep, which damaged and destroyed personal effects. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sugar City | - | Strong outflow winds of 60mph were recorded northeast of Sugar City. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sugar City | - | Large limbs and trees blown down in ditches along co ln 22 and 22.5 between cr k and hwy 96. Relayed by crowley county sheriff. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sugar City | - | Pole barn blown down, trees blown down. Relayed by county sheriff. |
| July 2022 | Heavy Rain | Sugar City | - | Heavy rainfall of 2.09 inches. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Sugar City | - | Storm chaser reported penny size hail southeast of Sugar City. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sugar City | - | Extensive tree damage throughout Sugar City. Branches upwards of 8 inches in diameter were downed. |
| June 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Sugar City | - | This tornado formed at 1735 MST in Crowley County, 8.1 miles east-southeast of Sugar City, and moved east for around 0.8 miles before exiting Crowley County around 8.9 miles east-southeast of Sugar City at 1736 MST. The tornado continued in Otero County for another 0.35 miles, before dissipating at 1737 MST. |
| September 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Sugar City | - | A landspout moved westward through open fields just south of County Road J, and caused no damage. |
| August 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Sugar City | - | A brief tornado occurred over open country with no known damage. |
| June 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Sugar City | - | A brief tornado occurred over open country with no known damage. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Sugar City | - | Hail accumulated six to eight inches deep near Sugar City. Snow plows were called out. |
| June 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Sugar City | - | Severe thunderstorms spawned three short-lived tornadoes in Crowley County; one south of Sugar City (18 miles of La Junta) and the other two near Cheraw (eight miles north of La Junta). All of the tornadoes touched down in open fields, with no damage or injuries reported. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Sugar City | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Sugar City | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Sugar City | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Sugar City | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Sugar City | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Sugar City | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Sugar City | - | no account filed |
| September 2016 | Hail | Sugar City | - | no account filed |
| September 2016 | Hail | Sugar City | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Sugar City | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Sugar City | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Sugar City | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Sugar City | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Sugar City | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Sugar City | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Sugar City | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Sugar City | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Sugar City | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Sugar City | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Sugar City | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Sugar City | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ordway | 5.0 miles | 14 | |
| Crowley | 10.6 miles | 14 | |
| King Center | 13.5 miles | 14 | |
| Olney Springs | 15.6 miles | 14 | |
| Pultney | 21.0 miles | 18 |
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 Sugar City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2304144 | 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 195392. 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.





