Editing Cedaredge, Colorado (section)

==History==
===Early history===
Up until 1880 much of central and western Colorado was inhabited by the Ute Indians. Under the Act of June 15, 1880, the Utes ceded a large portion of their land to the United States, including the Surface Creek Valley. On September 1, 1881, the last band of Utes made their exodus from western Colorado to the northeastern part of Utah under escort of troops from Fort Crawford.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}} Settlers soon began arriving, building homesteads, barns, businesses, and ranches. Much of the land was carved up into cattle ranches, fruit orchards, and fields of alfalfa, and grass, but the most successful business is cattle ranching to the west of the town.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}

The town of Cedaredge was officially incorporated on March 25, 1907, by a few ranchers.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}

Cedaredge is on the Loewen database of possible [[sundown town]]s.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Using the Sundown Towns Database |url=https://justice.tougaloo.edu/sundown-towns/using-the-sundown-towns-database/ |access-date=September 22, 2023 |website=History and Social Justice |language=en-US}}</ref>

[[File:McGruderFire7-03-04.JPG|thumbnail|right|McGruder fire on 7-3-04 below Rollins Sandstone]]

On July 2, 2004, a [[lightning strike]] caught a tree on fire, smoldering until the following day when hot dry winds fanned the flames into a large wildfire. Dubbed the McGruder fire, it consumed an area of approximately {{convert|3000|acre|km2}}, of which {{convert|1467|acre|km2}} was privately owned, the rest belonging to the [[Bureau of Land Management]] (BLM) and the [[United States Forest Service]].{{citation needed|date=May 2011}} The Cedaredge [[volunteer fire department]] (VFD) and regional firefighting services worked to [[Wildfire suppression|suppress]] the fire, containing it with [[Firebreak|fire lines]] by July 11 with no homes or lives being lost.

Cedaredge celebrated its centennial in 2007.