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2013 Colorado floods. Disaster emergencies were declared by Governor John Hickenlooper in 14 counties (highlighted) in Colorado. This is an animated loop of water vapor systems over the western area of North America on September 12, 2013 as shown by the GOES-15 and GOES-13 satellites. The storm that caused the 2013 Colorado flooding was kept in ...
1976 Big Thompson River flood. On July 31, 1976, heavy rainfall caused the Big Thompson River in Colorado to crest, causing at least 144 deaths, more than 250 injuries, and least 5 others to be missing. The crest was caused by a stalled thunderstorm complex that produced rainfall totals of 12–14 inches (300–360 mm) near Estes Park, Colorado ...
The City of Evans is a home rule municipality located in Weld County, Colorado, United States. [1] The city population was 22,165 at the 2020 United States Census, a 19.57% increase since the 2010 United States Census. [5] Evans is a part of the Greeley, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range Urban Corridor .
The name Mount Evans was first applied to the peak in the 1870s and first published on U.S. Geological Survey topographic maps in 1903, according to research compiled for the national naming board.
Interstate 70 ( I-70) is a transcontinental Interstate Highway in the United States, stretching from Cove Fort, Utah, to Baltimore, Maryland. In Colorado, the highway traverses an east–west route across the center of the state. In western Colorado, the highway connects the metropolitan areas of Grand Junction and Denver via a route through ...
Routt County, Colorado. / 40.48°N 106.99°W / 40.48; -106.99. Routt County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 24,829. [1] The county seat is Steamboat Springs. [2] Routt County comprises the Steamboat Springs, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area .
The Arkansas River flooded from Florence, Colorado to the Kansas line June 3 to June 5, 1921 following cloudbursts west of Pueblo resulting in substantial loss of life and property. The first flood was caused by heavy rain on Dry Creek just above Pueblo on the night of June 2; the second was the main flood, which occurred during the night of ...
The 1983 flood, although it nearly caused a catastrophic disaster, was a "relatively small flood". It was, in fact, only a 25-year flood, or a flood that has a four percent chance of occurring in any given year. Impact of dam failure. In 1990, the Bureau of Reclamation prepared a study of a Glen Canyon Dam failure.