Fraser, Colorado Fraser, Colorado Location in Grand County and the state of Colorado Location in Grand County and the state of Colorado Country United States State Colorado Fraser is a Statutory Town in Grand County, Colorado, United States.
The populace was 1,224 at the 2010 census. The town is in Middle Park in the valley of the Fraser River along U.S.
Its locale northwest of Winter Park, the locale of a prominent ski resort, has provided expansion in recent years with new condominium and other real estate developments.
Fraser was incorporated in 1953. A postal service called Fraser has been in operation since 1876. The town derives its name from Reuben Frazer, a pioneer settler. Fraser is positioned in southeastern Grand County at 39 56 39 N 105 48 48 W (39.944158, -105.813355), at an altitude of 8,574 feet (2,613 m) above sea level. It is bordered to the south by the town of Winter Park and to the north by unincorporated Tabernash.
Route 40 leads south and east athwart Berthoud Pass 71 miles (114 km) to Denver, and northwest 15 miles (24 km) to Granby, the biggest town in Grand County.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 3.6 square miles (9.2 km2), of which 0.004 square miles (0.01 km2), or 0.14%, is water. The Fraser River passes through the east side of town, flowing north toward the Colorado River.
Fraser, with an annual mean temperature of 32.5 F (0.3 C) (or 34.8 F (1.6 C) based on another station in town) is the coldest incorporated town in the lower 48 states.
It also has the shortest burgeoning season with an average of only 4 to 7 days (depending on which weather station data is used) and can and does get frost year-round, totaling over 300 evenings under 32 F (0 C), rivalled only by Barrow, Alaska, among presently inhabited localities in the United States.
The total of 79 evenings under 0 F ( 17.8 C) is also among the highest in the adjoining 48 states, but the 72 days with highs not topping freezing is exceeded by substantial areas of North Dakota, Minnesota and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Both Fraser and International Falls, Minnesota, have claimed the title "Icebox of the Nation", which has caused conflict between the two suburbs over the years. The hottest temperature recorded in Fraser is 98 F (36.7 C) on August 1, 1969, and the coldest 53 F ( 47.2 C) on January 10, 1962.
The wettest calendar year has been 1957 with 30.33 inches (770.4 mm) and the driest 1944 with 11.04 inches (280.4 mm), whilst the most rain in one month has been 7.69 inches (195.3 mm) in September 1961.
Snowfall is naturally heavy at 142.5 inches (3.62 m) and has ranged up to 82.4 inches (2.09 m) in February 1936 and 275.5 inches (7.00 m) from July 1926 to June 1927.
Climate data for Fraser, Colorado Average high F ( C) 28.5 Average low F ( C) 5.4 Fraser, Colorado has been in a dispute with International Falls, Minnesota since 1956 over use of the trademark "Icebox of the Nation." After a several years of legal battles, the United States Patent and Trademark Office officially registered the slogan with International Falls on January 29, 2008. As of the census of 2000, there were 910 citizens , 410 homeholds, and 191 families residing in the town.
There were 622 housing units at an average density of 335.7 per square mile (129.8/km ).
The average homehold size was 2.21 and the average family size was 2.71.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 17.9% under the age of 18, 14.2% from 18 to 24, 46.2% from 25 to 44, 18.0% from 45 to 64, and 3.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $38,173, and the median income for a family was $39,643.
About 11.1% of families and 8.8% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 9.8% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over.
Downtown Fraser, Colorado, April 2015 See also: Fraser station Amtrak (the National Passenger Railroad Corporation) provides regular service to Fraser and close-by Winter Park (station code: WIP), operating its California Zephyr daily in each direction between Chicago, Illinois and Emeryville, California in the San Francisco Bay Area.
In 2015, Amtrak also resumed cyclic ski train service to the Winter Park station (station code:WPR) at the Winter Park Resort. The new Winter Park Express resumed service ski train service that had been provided to resort by Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad's Ski Train for nearly 70 years. List of metros/cities and suburbs in Colorado a b "Active Colorado Municipalities".
State of Colorado, Department of Local Affairs.
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Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Fraser, Colorado a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Fraser town, Colorado".
Place names in Colorado: Why 700 communities were so named, 150 of Spanish or Indian origin.
Towns feud over claim to be nation's 'icebox', Associated Press, January 14, 2008.
Retrieved on May 1, 2015.
Trademark Status & Document Retrieval, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Accessed May 1, 2015.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
"Denver to Winter Park ski train returning for 2016-17: Tickets prices, schedules and details for new boarding platform at ski region will be announced Thursday".
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