Woody Creek, Colorado
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Aspen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81656. It stands on Little Woody Creek. The Survey maps it on the Woody Creek quadrangle. 290 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,346 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWoody Creek grew from 263 to 290 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 | 263 | |
| 2020 | 290 | +27 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 19 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.
- 1909 USGS Mount Jackson quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1911 USGS Mount Jackson quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Woody Creek quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1962 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
40 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Woody Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. 8 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 | 31 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | ASPEN |
| 19 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Basalt & Rural Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 17 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Basalt & Rural Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 3 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | SNOWMASS VILLAGE |
| 3 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | ASPEN |
| 28 August 2001 | Natural | under an acre | White River National Forest | WOODY CREEK |
| 16 August 2004 | Natural | under an acre | White River National Forest | WOODY CREEK |
| 16 August 2004 | Natural | 9.0 acres | Northwest District, Grand Junction | WATSON DIV |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Woody Creek: 3 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silver, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Western | Silver | Occurrence | ||
| Woody Creek Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Hemann-Woody Creek | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Jaffee Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| T-C Aggregates | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woody Creek in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 2 debris flow, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2008 | Heavy Rain | Woody Creek | $3,000 | Heavy rain resulted in minor flooding of two homes along Lower River Road near mile marker 27. |
| July 2022 | Debris Flow | Woody Creek | $500 | A minor debris flow occurred on the Jaffee Connector Trail between Jaffee Park and the Rio Grande Trail in Pitkin County as a result of heavy rain from thunderstorms. |
| October 2025 | Debris Flow | Woody Creek | - | Heavy rain caused mud and rockslides on Frying Pan Road in Pitkin County. Road closed at 511 MST and was reopened by 623 MST. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Snowmass Village | 4.8 miles | 25 | |
| Aspen | 6.6 miles | 26 | |
| Snowmass | 6.8 miles | 19 | |
| Lenado | 6.8 miles | 26 | |
| Wingo | 8.4 miles | 14 | |
| Meredith | 10.5 miles | 18 | |
| Emma | 11.4 miles | 14 | |
| Thomasville | 11.5 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 Woody Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5558116 | 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 179709. 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.








