Fort Morgan, Colorado

Fort Morgan population, 2020 to 2024

Fort Morgan added 281 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.4%. In the latest year it moved by +161. Among 79 Colorado places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 42nd; the median place changed by +3.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Colorado has 14,061 people, so Fort Morgan is 84% of it.

Fort Morgan covers 5.35 square miles of land and 0.07 of water, for 2,212 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Fort Morgan is denser than the typical town.

What county Fort Morgan is in

All of Fort Morgan's residents live in Morgan County, which had 30,300 residents in 2024. Fort Morgan holds 39.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fort Morgan

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Fort Morgan by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 80701. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Fort Morgan is

The Census internal point of Fort Morgan is at 40.253000, -103.788700. Denver, the capital, is 72.6 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Sterling, CO (13,114 people), 40.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Greeley, CO, 53.1 miles away.

Daylight in Fort Morgan

At 40.25° N, Fort Morgan gets about 15 h 03 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 18 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 45 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Fort Morgan

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Brush, 8.0 miles away, with 5,370 people.