Maybell, Colorado


Maybell is an unincorporated rural village, and namesake for a census-designated place, in Moffat County, Colorado, United States. It is located in the valley of the Yampa River along U.S. Highway 40. Craig is east along US 40, and Dinosaur is to the west. State Highway 318 leads northwest from Maybell to the Utah border, passing Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 72.
The village, founded in the 1880s, was named after May Bell, the wife of a local cattleman. It currently consists of a meat processing plant, general store with gas pumps, a garage, an elementary school, a residential hotel, a restaurant, a post office, and housing. The Post Office, in operation since 1884, serves the ZIP code 81640.

Geography

Maybell is located at . According to the U.S. Census Bureau, it has an area of, all land.

Climate

This climatic region is typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot summers and cold winters.
The lowest temperature ever recorded in the state of Colorado was at Maybell on February 1, 1985.

Demographics