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.
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
- Rock Creek Stage Stationlisted 1982
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Toponas quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Steamboat Springs quadrangle1:100000
- 2000 USGS Toponas quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
8 since 1994Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | COBERLY CREEK |
| 3 September 1996 | Natural | 25 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | CORN |
| 20 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | COBERLY |
| 25 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | not named |
| 16 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | COBERLY |
| 15 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 4 June 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | HALL PASS |
| 30 June 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | SHOE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Clay | Occurrence | Clay | |
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2004 | Heavy Rain | Toponas | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Toponas | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Wildfire | Toponas | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trapper | 4.8 miles | 14 | |
| Yampa | 8.3 miles | 13 | |
| Phippsburg | 13.9 miles | 13 | |
| Oak Creek | 16.8 miles | 12 | |
| Keystone | 18.5 miles | 12 | |
| Haybro | 20.4 miles | 12 | |
| Dunckley | 26.3 miles | 20 | |
| Steamboat Springs | 29.3 miles | 12 |
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 Toponas | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7825059 | The 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.









