Maybell is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in and governed by Moffat County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Craig, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area. The Maybell post office has the ZIP Code 81640. At the 2020 census, the population of the Maybell CDP was 76. The coldest ambient air temperature ever recorded in the state of Colorado was at Maybell on February 1, 1985. History 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 in central Moffat County, 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. The Maybell CDP has an area of , all land. Climate This climatic region is typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters. The climate of Maybell is a humid continental climate (Dfb). The coldest ambient air temperature ever recorded in the State of Colorado was at Maybell on February 1, 1985. Demographics The United States Census Bureau initially defined the for the See also List of census-designated places in Colorado References External links Maybell, Colorado Maybell, Colorado Mining Claims And Mines Census-designated places in Moffat County, Colorado Census-designated places in Colorado Unincorporated communities in Colorado Unincorporated communities in Moffat County, Colorado