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Tobe, Colorado

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Kim census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81027. The Survey maps it on the Tobe quadrangle.

Tobe within Las Animas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Tobe between 1996 and 2003, burning about 15 acres in total. 1 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
Natural1
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
17 July 1996Natural10 acresPike and San Isabel National ForestLEFT TURN
16 December 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named

Every fire recorded in Las Animas County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Tobe: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Las Animas County

Storms near this place

7 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tobe in 7 storm reports between 2005 and 2023: 6 hail, 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
June 2023HailTobe-Reported by storm chasers.
July 2015Flash FloodTobe-A slow moving storm produced heavy rain and washed out county roads along the Raton Mesa east of Branson.
May 2017HailTobe-no account filed
May 2010HailTobe-no account filed
August 2009HailTobe-no account filed
August 2009HailTobe-no account filed
June 2005HailTobe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Las Animas 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
Villegreen7.7 miles20
Kim13.9 miles17
Walts Corner14.6 miles16
Branson20.1 miles16
Andrix22.6 miles18
Trinchera26.1 miles15
Patterson Crossing31.6 miles15
Abeyta31.9 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 196230. 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.