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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.

Wiggins within Morgan County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Wiggins 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.

YearPeople Change
2010893
20201,401+508 (+57%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

5 since 2011

Regional 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/undetermined5

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
21 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresSoutheast Weld Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
22 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFORT MORGAN
31 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFORT MORGAN
25 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFORT MORGAN
19 February 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersWIGGINS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

60 of 73 shown

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2009Thunderstorm WindWiggins$100,000Intense 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 2025Thunderstorm WindWiggins-Mesonet station Wiggins Bijou Creek.
June 2024HailWiggins-Heavy rain and strong winds also accompanied the thunderstorm.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindWiggins-Wiggins Bijou Creek mesonet weather station CO039.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindWiggins-Personal weather station hit 70 mph.
July 2021LightningWiggins-Lightning sparked a grass fire.
May 2019HailWiggins-Hail accumulated up to 3 inches in depth in Wiggins.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindWiggins-The storm also produced small hail and heavy rain, 1.4 inches in 20 minutes.
July 2004Tornado (F0)Wiggins-A small tornado touched down but did no damage.
October 1994HailWiggins-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 1993HailWiggins-Thunderstorms crossed through parts of three counties, dropping dime-size hail from Commerce City to Wiggins.
June 2025HailWiggins-no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindWiggins-no account filed
May 2023Thunderstorm WindWiggins-no account filed
June 2023HailWiggins-no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindWiggins-no account filed
June 2023HailWiggins-no account filed
May 2021HailWiggins-no account filed
May 2021HailWiggins-no account filed
May 2021HailWiggins-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindWiggins-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindWiggins-no account filed
May 2019HailWiggins-no account filed
May 2019HailWiggins-no account filed
August 2018HailWiggins-no account filed
August 2018HailWiggins-no account filed
July 2016HailWiggins-no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindWiggins-no account filed
July 2015HailWiggins-no account filed
August 2014HailWiggins-no account filed
August 2014Thunderstorm WindWiggins-no account filed
October 2014Thunderstorm WindWiggins-no account filed
July 2013Thunderstorm WindWiggins-no account filed
May 2010HailWiggins-no account filed
May 2010HailWiggins-no account filed
June 2010HailWiggins-no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindWiggins-no account filed
May 2010HailWiggins-no account filed
May 2010HailWiggins-no account filed
June 2010HailWiggins-no account filed
May 2010HailWiggins-no account filed
May 2010HailWiggins-no account filed
May 2010HailWiggins-no account filed
August 2009HailWiggins-no account filed
June 2009HailWiggins-no account filed
June 2008HailWiggins-no account filed
June 2008HailWiggins-no account filed
June 2008HailWiggins-no account filed
August 2008HailWiggins-no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindWiggins-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindWiggins-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindWiggins-no account filed
May 2004HailWiggins-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindWiggins-no account filed
April 2003HailWiggins-no account filed
April 2003HailWiggins-no account filed
April 2003Thunderstorm WindWiggins-no account filed
April 2003HailWiggins-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindWiggins-no account filed
July 2002HailWiggins-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Orchard7.3 miles16
Goodrich8.3 miles16
Weldona9.7 miles11
Lamb12.0 miles8
Log Lane Village13.2 miles10
Fort Morgan14.5 miles10
Hoyt14.8 miles15
Hurley16.8 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 WigginsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q579894The 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.