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Tonville, Colorado

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Keenesburg-Hudson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80603. The Survey maps it on the Hudson quadrangle.

Tonville within Weld County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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

262 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 262 fires within 5 miles of Tonville between 2010 and 2020, burning about 399 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined201
Smoking14
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural4
Fireworks4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersBRIGHTON
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
6 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHudson Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreGreater Brighton Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersHUDSON
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersHUDSON
28 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreGreater Brighton Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Weld 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 Tonville: 2 producers, 2 occurrences. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Weld County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tonville in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2010: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 2010Flash FloodTonville$25,000Heavy rain and torrential hail produced flash flooding over southeast Weld County. Fifty thousand acres of cropland was heavily damaged. Ham radio spotters reported water running across State Highway 52, east of Prospect Valley, forcing its closure. In addition, State Highways 14 and 392 near Briggdale were also inundated with water. Several county roads were either flooded or completely washed out.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindTonville-Damaging winds from a wet microburst downed two 30-ft flag poles. Several tree branches 3 inches in diameter were snapped, and a wind gage broke.
May 2010HailTonville-no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindTonville-no account filed
July 2009Thunderstorm WindTonville-no account filed
May 1997HailTonville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Weld 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
Lochbuie0.7 miles24
Hudson5.5 miles24
Powars5.9 miles21
Wattenberg7.2 miles21
Aristocrat Ranchettes7.6 miles21
Fort Lupton7.8 miles21
Roy10.1 miles20
Vollmar11.3 miles20

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.

Wikidata item Q122591331The 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 180868. 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.