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Tacoma, Colorado

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Durango census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81301. It stands on Canyon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Electra Lake quadrangle.

Tacoma within La Plata County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 27 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

115 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Tacoma between 1992 and 2020, burning about 54,652 acres in total. 69 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Natural69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony6
Debris and open burning2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDurango Fire Rescue AuthorityUNKNOWN
6 September 2017Natural1.2 acresSan Juan National Forest990
3 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDurango Fire Rescue AuthorityUNKNOWN
22 September 2016Naturalunder an acreSan Juan National ForestFUME WALL
16 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSan Juan National ForestCF 1128
8 August 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreLa Plata Countynot named
7 August 2011Naturalunder an acreSan Juan National ForestFLAGSTAFF
6 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in La Plata County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Tacoma: 5 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Animas River PlacersSilver, GoldPast Producer
QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Silver StarLead, Silver, Zinc, GoldPast Producer
Bank ClaimGoldOccurrence1883
Painter Placer ClaimsGoldPast Producer
Slipper TunnelGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in La Plata County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tacoma in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2018: 1 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1997Heavy RainTacoma$10,000no account filed
July 2018Flash FloodTacoma-Heavy rainfall from thunderstorms led to flash flooding at the KOA Campground 3.75 miles north-northeast of Hermosa. Radar estimates half an inch to an inch of rain fell with thunderstorms.

Every storm recorded in La Plata County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Rockwood2.5 miles29
Cascade5.6 miles27
Hermosa8.0 miles29
Trimble9.8 miles29
Logtown (historical)10.3 miles24
Vallecito14.7 miles23
Columbus15.7 miles21
Tuckerville (historical)15.9 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 187954. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.