# What kind of sites keep tanks in Colorado

> The 19,762 registered facilities by category — filling stations, emergency generators, propane, public bodies.

## What kind of site keeps a tank

A tank on this register is often not a petrol station, and the category says which.

| Category | Facilities | Share |
|---|---|---|
| [Other](/category/other.md) | 5,283 | 26.7% |
| [Commercial/industrial](/category/commercial-industrial.md) | 4,071 | 20.6% |
| [Retail Gas Station](/category/retail-gas-station.md) | 4,046 | 20.5% |
| [Lpg Only](/category/lpg-only.md) | 2,225 | 11.3% |
| [State/local Government](/category/state-local-government.md) | 1,852 | 9.4% |
| [Emergency Generator Only](/category/emergency-generator-only.md) | 749 | 3.8% |
| [Federal Government](/category/federal-government.md) | 529 | 2.7% |
| [Farm/residential](/category/farm-residential.md) | 246 | 1.2% |
| [Airport](/category/airport.md) | 184 | 0.9% |
| [Petroleum Distributor](/category/petroleum-distributor.md) | 168 | 0.9% |
| [Auto Maintenance Facility](/category/auto-maintenance-facility.md) | 161 | 0.8% |
| [Bulk Plant](/category/bulk-plant.md) | 144 | 0.7% |
| [Railroad](/category/railroad.md) | 74 | 0.4% |

### What each one is

#### [Other](/category/other.md)

the Division’s catch-all. It is the largest single category, which is worth knowing before reading anything into it.

#### [Commercial/industrial](/category/commercial-industrial.md)

a business that keeps fuel for its own use: depots, workshops, haulage yards.

#### [Retail Gas Station](/category/retail-gas-station.md)

a filling station selling fuel to the public — the kind of site most people picture when they hear « storage tank ».

#### [Lpg Only](/category/lpg-only.md)

propane only. LPG tanks are regulated separately from petroleum and behave differently — they are pressure vessels, not buried steel in wet ground.

#### [State/local Government](/category/state-local-government.md)

a public body’s own fuel: municipal yards, school districts, state depots.

#### [Emergency Generator Only](/category/emergency-generator-only.md)

fuel kept solely to run a standby generator — hospitals, telecoms sites, data centres. The tank exists for the day the power fails.

#### [Federal Government](/category/federal-government.md)

a federal facility’s own fuel.

#### [Farm/residential](/category/farm-residential.md)

a category the Division records under this heading.

#### [Airport](/category/airport.md)

aviation fuel at an airfield.

#### [Petroleum Distributor](/category/petroleum-distributor.md)

a category the Division records under this heading.

#### [Auto Maintenance Facility](/category/auto-maintenance-facility.md)

a category the Division records under this heading.

#### [Bulk Plant](/category/bulk-plant.md)

a category the Division records under this heading.

#### [Railroad](/category/railroad.md)

a category the Division records under this heading.

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Fonte: Regulated storage tanks, facilities and petroleum releases — Colorado Division of Oil and Public Safety (three datasets)
Recolha: 2026-08-21