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Tioga, Colorado

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Walsenburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81089. The Survey maps it on the Black Hills quadrangle. It stands 6,549 feet above sea level.

Tioga within Huerfano County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 15 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

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Tioga between 1994 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

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
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersWALSENBURG
5 July 1994Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresHuerfano Countynot named
27 July 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreHuerfano Countynot named
21 July 2020Naturalunder an acreHuerfano CountyRIDGE CANYON
11 June 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
4 May 2018Recreation and ceremony7.0 acresHuerfano County Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
13 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
8 November 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHuerfano Countynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Huerfano County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Tioga: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Coal, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Butte Valley, Alamo #1Coal, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Huerfano 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
Strong1.6 miles15
Delcarbon2.8 miles15
Alamo3.4 miles15
Badito5.0 miles17
Maitland5.8 miles15
Pictou7.3 miles15
Farisita8.3 miles17
Walsenburg9.4 miles18

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 TiogaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27995434The 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 194229. 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.