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Yampa, Colorado

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Yampa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80483. It stands on Wheeler Creek. The Survey maps it on the Yampa quadrangle. 399 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,881 feet above sea level.

Yampa within Routt County

On record in Yampa

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Yampa fell from 429 to 399 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
2010429
2020399-30 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 13 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

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Yampa between 1994 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. 3 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
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1

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
1 September 2006Naturalunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandTODD
26 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNorthwest District, CraigGUN RANGE
14 July 1994Natural2.0 acresRoutt Countynot named
11 July 2001Naturalunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandLONE SPRING
29 April 2020Debris and open burning1.6 acresRoutt CountyCHERRY CREEK
28 January 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreYampa Fire Protection DistrictN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Routt County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yampa in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 1 lightning, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2009LightningYampa$30,000Lightning struck the South Routt Elementary School and started the building on fire. The fire and related damage were confined to the gymnasium.
August 2023Funnel CloudYampa-A funnel cloud was spotted by several people near Yampa.

Every storm recorded in Routt 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
Trapper3.7 miles14
Phippsburg5.8 miles13
Toponas8.3 miles14
Oak Creek8.9 miles12
Keystone10.7 miles12
Haybro12.7 miles12
Dunckley18.3 miles20
Steamboat Springs23.3 miles12

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 YampaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2425200The 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 173064. 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.