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Towner, Colorado

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Sheridan Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81071. The Survey maps it on the Towner quadrangle. 18 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,927 feet above sea level.

Towner within Kiowa County

Population over time

2 figures

Towner fell from 22 to 18 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201022
202018-4 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Towner in 2018, burning under an acre in total. None 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
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
19 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service21

Every fire recorded in Kiowa County

Storms near this place

46 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Towner in 46 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 24 hail, 17 tornado, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
March 2007Tornado (EF2)Towner$10,000The Prowers County tornado crossed into Kiowa County and traveled another 11 miles...destroying electrical transmission poles (EF2 damage). The tornado did not hit any other structures in Kiowa County.
March 2007Tornado (EF1)Towner$2,000A second tornado developed from the same supercell that spawned the Holly tornado. It destroyed four electrical transmission poles on State Highway 96...east of Towner...and then moved through a rural area...before crossing into Greeley County Kansas.
July 2022Heavy RainTowner-Heavy rainfall of 1.14 inches.
March 2021Heavy RainTowner-Heavy rain of 2.25 inches.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindTowner-A garage was destroyed. There were also 33 broken telephone poles on Highway 96 around the town of Towner.
August 2019HailTowner-One inch hail reported.
May 2016Tornado (EFU)Towner-Law enforcement witnessed a brief landspout tornado. The tornado caused no damage from which the NWS could assign an EF-scale rating.
May 2016Tornado (EFU)Towner-A brief landspout tornado was witnessed by a trained spotter. The tornado caused no damage from which the NWS could assign an EF-scale rating.
May 2016Tornado (EFU)Towner-A storm chaser captured video of a tornado across open country. The tornado caused no damage from which the NWS could assign an EF-scale rating.
October 2013Thunderstorm WindTowner-Minor damage occurred to tree limbs and weaker structures.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindTowner-Numerous small tree limbs were broken off.
May 2010Tornado (EF0)Towner-A brief landspout occurred over open country and caused no damage.
May 2010Tornado (EF0)Towner-A landspout occurred over open country and caused no damage.
May 2010Tornado (EF0)Towner-A landspout occurred over open country and caused no damage.
May 2010Tornado (EF0)Towner-A landspout occurred over open country and caused no damage.
May 2010Tornado (EF0)Towner-A landspout occurred over open country causing no damage.
May 2010Tornado (EF0)Towner-A landspout occurred over open country and caused no damage.
May 2010Tornado (EF0)Towner-A landspout occurred over open country and caused no damage.
May 2010Tornado (EF0)Towner-A landspout occurred over open country and caused no damage.
May 2010Tornado (EF0)Towner-A tornado occurred over open country causing no damage.
May 2010Tornado (EF0)Towner-A landspout occurred over open country and caused no damage.
June 1997Tornado (F0)Towner-A tornado occurred in open country of eastern Kiowa county. There was no known damage.
June 1994HailTowner-Hail up to three-inches in diameter destroyed up to one half of a wheat field south southwest of Towner (85-miles east of La Junta).
July 2015HailTowner-no account filed
May 2014HailTowner-no account filed
August 2014HailTowner-no account filed
June 2012HailTowner-no account filed
June 2011HailTowner-no account filed
July 2010HailTowner-no account filed
June 2009HailTowner-no account filed
May 2008HailTowner-no account filed
August 2007HailTowner-no account filed
August 2004HailTowner-no account filed
July 1999HailTowner-no account filed
May 1999HailTowner-no account filed
June 1999HailTowner-no account filed
June 1999HailTowner-no account filed
June 1999HailTowner-no account filed
June 1999HailTowner-no account filed
July 1998HailTowner-no account filed
May 1998HailTowner-no account filed
June 1997HailTowner-no account filed
June 1997HailTowner-no account filed
June 1996HailTowner-no account filed
September 1996HailTowner-no account filed
September 1996Tornado (F0)Towner-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kiowa 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
Stuart6.1 miles15
Sheridan Lake11.3 miles14
Brandon19.2 miles14
Chivington24.7 miles15
Eads37.2 miles15
Hawkins45.2 miles15
Galatea50.1 miles12
Haswell57.4 miles13

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 TownerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q9089266The 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 204824. 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.

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.