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Toponas, Colorado

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Yampa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80479. It stands on Newcomer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Toponas quadrangle. It stands 8,284 feet above sea level.

Toponas within Routt County

On record in Toponas

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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 Toponas between 1994 and 2013, burning about 26 acres in total. 6 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
Natural6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandCOBERLY CREEK
3 September 1996Natural25 acresMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandCORN
20 September 2002Naturalunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandCOBERLY
25 August 1994Naturalunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grasslandnot named
16 August 2000Naturalunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandCOBERLY
15 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
4 June 2009Naturalunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandHALL PASS
30 June 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandSHOE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Routt County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Toponas: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
UnknownClayOccurrenceClay
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Routt County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Toponas in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2004: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire, 1 heavy rain. 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 2004Heavy RainToponas-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindToponas-no account filed
August 2000WildfireToponas-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Routt 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
Trapper4.8 miles14
Yampa8.3 miles13
Phippsburg13.9 miles13
Oak Creek16.8 miles12
Keystone18.5 miles12
Haybro20.4 miles12
Dunckley26.3 miles20
Steamboat Springs29.3 miles12

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 ToponasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7825059The 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 173099. 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.