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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.

Sugar City within Crowley County

Population over time

2 figures

Sugar 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.

YearPeople Change
2010258
2020259+1 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

12 since 1994

Regional 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/undetermined7
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersORDWAY
16 August 2017Naturalunder an acreOrdway Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
14 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersSUGAR CITY
8 May 1994Smokingunder an acreCrowley Countynot named
3 May 2017Natural1.0 acresOrdway Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
8 April 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOrdway Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
21 April 1994Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresCrowley Countynot named
24 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersSUGAR CITY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crowley County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lake Henry AnticlineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand and Gravel

Every working recorded in Crowley County

Storms near this place

35 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2002Thunderstorm WindSugar City5 hurt, $10,000no account filed
August 2004Flash FloodSugar City$30,000Slow 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 2024Thunderstorm WindSugar City-Strong outflow winds of 60mph were recorded northeast of Sugar City.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindSugar 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 2024Thunderstorm WindSugar City-Pole barn blown down, trees blown down. Relayed by county sheriff.
July 2022Heavy RainSugar City-Heavy rainfall of 2.09 inches.
June 2019HailSugar City-Storm chaser reported penny size hail southeast of Sugar City.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindSugar City-Extensive tree damage throughout Sugar City. Branches upwards of 8 inches in diameter were downed.
June 2009Tornado (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 2009Tornado (EF0)Sugar City-A landspout moved westward through open fields just south of County Road J, and caused no damage.
August 2008Tornado (EF0)Sugar City-A brief tornado occurred over open country with no known damage.
June 2004Tornado (F0)Sugar City-A brief tornado occurred over open country with no known damage.
June 1995HailSugar City-Hail accumulated six to eight inches deep near Sugar City. Snow plows were called out.
June 1994Tornado (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 2023HailSugar City-no account filed
June 2022HailSugar City-no account filed
June 2022HailSugar City-no account filed
June 2022HailSugar City-no account filed
May 2017HailSugar City-no account filed
June 2017HailSugar City-no account filed
June 2016HailSugar City-no account filed
September 2016HailSugar City-no account filed
September 2016HailSugar City-no account filed
May 2014HailSugar City-no account filed
June 2013HailSugar City-no account filed
June 2013HailSugar City-no account filed
June 2011HailSugar City-no account filed
July 2010HailSugar City-no account filed
June 2009HailSugar City-no account filed
June 2004HailSugar City-no account filed
August 2004HailSugar City-no account filed
June 2002HailSugar City-no account filed
June 2002HailSugar City-no account filed
April 1999HailSugar City-no account filed
June 1998HailSugar City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crowley 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
Ordway5.0 miles14
Crowley10.6 miles14
King Center13.5 miles14
Olney Springs15.6 miles14
Pultney21.0 miles18

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 CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2304144The 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.