Census Data for Sams

As far as we can tell, Sams has not been included in past Census counts, so there is no population information for this community.

While we don't have census information for Sams, you might be interested in some nearby communities where we do:

• Sawpit
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Sawpit is located in San Miguel County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sawpit
  • Sawpit has also been known as:
  • Saw Pit
• Ridgway
  (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
  • Ridgway is located in Ouray County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgway
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ridgway <1>
• Mountain Village
  (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Mountain Village is located in San Miguel County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain Village
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mountain Village <1>
• Telluride
  (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Telluride is located in San Miguel County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Telluride
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Telluride <1>
• Ouray
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Ouray is located in Ouray County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ouray
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ouray <1>
• Norwood
  (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Norwood is located in San Miguel County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norwood
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Norwood <1>
• Ophir
  (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
  • Ophir is located in San Miguel County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ophir
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ophir <1>
• Silverton
  (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Silverton is located in San Juan County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silverton
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Silverton <1>
• Montrose
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
  • Montrose is located in Montrose County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montrose
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Montrose <1>
• Rico
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
  • Rico is located in Dolores County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rico
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rico <1>

San Miguel County ...

Sams is located in San Miguel County<2>.

For more information, please visit our Census Page for San Miguel County.

Miscellaneous Information for Sams ...

The Federal government has assigned various identifying codes to each community, county and state. At one time or another, the US Census Bureau has used one (or more) of the following identifiers when referring to either San Miguel County or the community of Sams:

• The GNIS Codes ...
  • The current system of identification is called the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). The following GNIS codes relate to Sams:
  • GNIS ID for Sams: 188559
  • GNIS ID for San Miguel County: 198172
  • GNIS ID for State of Colorado: 1779779

• The FIPS Codes ...
  • An earlier (and largely obsolete) identification method was called the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS):
  • State Code: 08 (Colorado)
  • County Code: 113 (San Miguel County)
  • Place Code: 67480 (Sams)
  • State & County Code: 08/113 (Colorado / San Miguel County)
  • State & Place Code: 08/67480 (Colorado / Sams)

• Misc. Census Codes ...
  • Sams is located in Census Region #4 (the West Region) and Division #8 (the Mountain Division).

For more information about the various Federal identification codes, please visit our Misc Page for Sams.