Fraser

History

Fraser was incorporated in 1953. A post office called Fraser has been in operation since 1876. The town derives its name from Reuben Frazer, a pioneer settler.

Geography

Fraser is located in southeastern Grand County. It is bordered to the south by the town of Winter Park and to the north by unincorporated Tabernash. U.S. Route 40 leads south and east across Berthoud Pass to Denver, and northwest to Granby, the largest town in Grand County. At the 2020 United States census, the town had a total area of including of water. According to the Köppen climate classification system, Fraser has a subarctic climate, abbreviated Dfc on climate maps or Eolo in the Trewartha climate classification. The hottest temperature recorded in Fraser is on July 10, 1939, and the coldest on January 10, 1962. The wettest calendar year has been 1957 with and the driest 1944 with , whilst the most precipitation in one month has been in September 1961. Snowfall is naturally heavy at and has ranged up to in February 1936 and from July 1926 to June 1927. A freeze has been recorded for every single date of the year, one of the only locations in the entire United States to hold that record. | source 2 = National Weather Service | source = }} Fraser, Colorado has been in a dispute with International Falls, Minnesota since 1956 over use of the trademark "Icebox of the Nation." After several years of legal battles, the United States Patent and Trademark Office officially registered the slogan with International Falls on January 29, 2008.

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• Mountain Chickadee

  Poecile gambeli (Ridgway, 1886) · Aves
  3,514
• American Crow

  Corvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 · Aves
  2,690
• Dark-eyed Junco

  Junco hyemalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  2,226
• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  2,173
• Broad-tailed Hummingbird

  Selasphorus platycercus (Swainson, 1827) · Aves
  2,024
• Steller's Jay

  Cyanocitta stelleri (Gmelin, 1788) · Aves
  1,836
• White-crowned Sparrow

  Zonotrichia leucophrys (J.R.Forster, 1772) · Aves
  1,819
• Common Raven

  Corvus corax Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,816

Largest nearby schools

• Fraser Valley Elementary School
  Elementary · FRASER · 256 students · 12.2:1 ratio

Most recent

• M 2.7 — 2025-11-30
  15 km SSW of Walden, Colorado
• M 2.7 — 2025-06-13
  7 km SE of Erie, Colorado
• M 2.5 — 2020-10-24
  2 km ESE of Georgetown, Colorado
• M 2.6 — 2018-07-03
  17 km SW of Walden, Colorado
• M 2.7 — 2018-06-21
  16 km SSW of Walden, Colorado
• M 2.7 — 2011-08-12
  11 km WNW of McCoy, Colorado