Mayor Dick Kirkpatrick                                                970-835-3030

Mayor Dick was first elected to Mayor in 2024 after serving as a trustee for 8 years. Mayor Kirkpatrick has served on the Town of Orchard City's Finance, Water and Personnel Committees.

Mayor Kirkpatrick was elected to a second four-year term as trustee in April 2020.  He has been a resident of the Town of Orchard City for eighteen years and is a graduate of Delta High School.

Born on October 26, 1945 in Pueblo Colorado. Moved to Eckert attending grade school through third grade, until 1954 when his family moved to Delta. Mayor Kirkpatrick then finished out the rest of his grade school, attended Junior and Senior High School in Delta and graduated in 1964. He went on to Mesa Junior College on a Football and Baseball Scholarship. Mayor Kirkpatrick then moved to Hardin Montana where he attended Eastern Montana State for one semester in 1965. He was drafted into the military, Air Force, in January 1966, and married in June 1966. Mayor Kirkpatrick became a father in 1968 and attained the rank of Staff Sargent before being honorably Discharged May 1969. 

Mayor Kirkpatrick then moved back to Hardin Montana where he worked at Holly Sugar for ten (10) years in         Hardin, Montana; Torrington, Wyoming; Hereford, Texas and Brawley, California. While working in Wyoming in 1971, Mayor Kirkpatrick had his second child.

He left Holly in 1979 and started his career in the Water and Waste Water Construction Industry with Western Summit Constructors, in Snowmass, CO.  In 1979 started out as a welder and retired in 2004 as the President. He has worked all through Snowmass, Parachute, Rifle, Craig, Delta, Silverthorne, Gunnison and Denver in Colorado, Laughlin and Las Vegas in Nevada, San Diego, Sacramento, Fresno and Carlsbad in California.  Houston, Texas, Atlanta Georgia, Kansas City, Manhattan Kansas.    

Mayor then divorced his first wife in 1984 and remarried in 1988. He became a father again with twins in 1990 and retired in 2004. In 2005 he began a consulting company as a Construction Consultant in the Water and Waste Water Industry.  He then consulted in Las Vegas, Sacramento, Seattle, Honolulu, Kansas City, Atlanta, Augusta and Denver.

In 2006 he moved to Cory where he ran the Consulting Company out of in-home office.

He has served on the Boards of Directors with:

                        Grand Mesa Resort Company, retired

                        Orchard City Irrigation District, retired

                        Butte Ditch Company, Active

                        Delta County Ambulance District, Active

                        Cory Cemetery, Active

                        Grand Mesa Conservancy District, active

Board of Trustees Town of Orchard City May 2016 to April 2024

Mayor Town of Orchard City, first term 2024 until 2028.

His family has grown from his four children Staci, Britt, Zane, Hope; to include 5 Grand kids Tyler, Koleby Jordan, Ryan and Logan and 5 Great Grand kids, Milly, Sophia, Able, Jax and Ki