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Thurman, Colorado

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Cope census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80815. The Survey maps it on the Thurman quadrangle. It stands 4,876 feet above sea level.

Thurman within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Thurman between 2014 and 2017, burning about 5 acres in total. 2 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
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
8 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthwest Washington County Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
8 May 2017Natural2.0 acresSouthwest Washington County Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
8 May 2017Natural3.0 acresSouthwest Washington County Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

8 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thurman in 8 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 8 hail. 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
August 2025HailThurman-Hen egg to baseball size hail reported.
August 2025HailThurman-The report was from mPING.
June 2018HailThurman-no account filed
June 2018HailThurman-no account filed
June 2018HailThurman-no account filed
September 2016HailThurman-no account filed
June 2015HailThurman-no account filed
September 2014HailThurman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Anton10.0 miles8
Arickaree10.7 miles8
Lindon14.4 miles8
Wiladel15.0 miles8
Cope20.0 miles8
Last Chance22.2 miles8
De Nova (historical)22.3 miles8
Elba24.3 miles8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on ThurmanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14685124The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1950960. 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.

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.