Wiggins, Colorado
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Wiggins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80654. The Survey maps it on the Wiggins quadrangle. 1,401 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,557 feet above sea level.
On record in Wiggins
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 1 record
Trail School, Oldlisted 2004
Population over time
2 figuresWiggins grew from 893 to 1,401 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 | 893 | |
| 2020 | 1,401 | +508 (+57%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 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.
- 1950 USGS Wiggins quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
- 1954 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
5 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Wiggins between 2011 and 2013, burning about 42 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/undetermined | 5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 June 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Southeast Weld Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 22 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | FORT MORGAN |
| 31 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | FORT MORGAN |
| 25 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | FORT MORGAN |
| 19 February 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | WIGGINS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
60 of 73 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wiggins in 73 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 46 hail, 25 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wiggins | $100,000 | Intense thunderstorm winds destroyed an outbuilding and a pivot sprinkler on a farm. A semi-trailer traveling along Interstate 76 was also blown on its side. The driver was uninjured although the damage to his truck was extensive. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wiggins | - | Mesonet station Wiggins Bijou Creek. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Wiggins | - | Heavy rain and strong winds also accompanied the thunderstorm. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wiggins | - | Wiggins Bijou Creek mesonet weather station CO039. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wiggins | - | Personal weather station hit 70 mph. |
| July 2021 | Lightning | Wiggins | - | Lightning sparked a grass fire. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Wiggins | - | Hail accumulated up to 3 inches in depth in Wiggins. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wiggins | - | The storm also produced small hail and heavy rain, 1.4 inches in 20 minutes. |
| July 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Wiggins | - | A small tornado touched down but did no damage. |
| October 1994 | Hail | Wiggins | - | Hail covered ground one to two inches deep in and near Wiggins in western Morgan County. Thunderstorms containing heavy rain and large hail moved northeastward off of the foothills and onto the plains. The counties of Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Denver, Larimer, Morgan, Washington and Weld were the most affected by the line of thunderstorms. Costly damage was sustained to homes and vehicles in the urban corridor area with only minor street flooding reported. Emergency claim teams from insurance companies were sent out due to the overwhelming number of claims. Total damage estimates from the hail storm was at $174 million with $96.5 million for homes and $77.0 million for automobiles. |
| May 1993 | Hail | Wiggins | - | Thunderstorms crossed through parts of three counties, dropping dime-size hail from Commerce City to Wiggins. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Hail | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Hail | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| October 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wiggins | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Wiggins | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orchard | 7.3 miles | 16 | |
| Goodrich | 8.3 miles | 16 | |
| Weldona | 9.7 miles | 11 | |
| Lamb | 12.0 miles | 8 | |
| Log Lane Village | 13.2 miles | 10 | |
| Fort Morgan | 14.5 miles | 10 | |
| Hoyt | 14.8 miles | 15 | |
| Hurley | 16.8 miles | 10 |
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 Wiggins | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q579894 | 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 204698. 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.







