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Tomah, Colorado

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Castle Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80109. It lies near Glade Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Dawson Butte quadrangle.

Tomah within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 28 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

154 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Tomah between 1992 and 2020, burning about 127 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined104
Equipment and vehicle use15
Natural13
Arson/incendiarism10
Debris and open burning5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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
7 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreDouglas Countynot named
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCastle Rock Fire & Rescue DepartmentUNKNOWN
27 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCastle Rock Fire & Rescue DepartmentUNKNOWN
26 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCastle Rock Fire & Rescue DepartmentUNKNOWN
25 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
23 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCastle Rock Fire & Rescue DepartmentUNKNOWN
19 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCastle Rock Fire & Rescue DepartmentUNKNOWN
19 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCastle Rock Fire & Rescue DepartmentUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Tomah: 26 producers, 4 occurrences, 3 past producers. 26 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Perry ParkGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Johnson, Scott, & BrickyardFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence
WareFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence
ClaypitClayProducer
ClaypitClayProducer
ClaypitClayProducer
DitmarSand and Gravel, Construction, StonePast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSedimentary
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tomah in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2012: 2 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
June 2012HailTomah-no account filed
July 2009HailTomah-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Monte Vista Estates4.7 miles28
Larkspur5.1 miles27
Castle Rock5.2 miles28
Perry Park6.3 miles28
Founders Village6.7 miles28
Castle Oaks7.5 miles28
Shamballah-Ashrama8.1 miles29
Silver Heights8.1 miles28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 185130. 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.