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.
Population over time
2 figuresTowner 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 22 | |
| 2020 | 18 | -4 (-18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 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.
- 1890 USGS Granada quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Granada quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Granada quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Lamar quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Lamar quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Towner quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Lamar quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Lamar quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2018Regional 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/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 21 |
Storms near this place
46 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2007 | Tornado (EF2) | Towner | $10,000 | The 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 2007 | Tornado (EF1) | Towner | $2,000 | A 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 2022 | Heavy Rain | Towner | - | Heavy rainfall of 1.14 inches. |
| March 2021 | Heavy Rain | Towner | - | Heavy rain of 2.25 inches. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Towner | - | A garage was destroyed. There were also 33 broken telephone poles on Highway 96 around the town of Towner. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Towner | - | One inch hail reported. |
| May 2016 | Tornado (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 2016 | Tornado (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 2016 | Tornado (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 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Towner | - | Minor damage occurred to tree limbs and weaker structures. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Towner | - | Numerous small tree limbs were broken off. |
| May 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Towner | - | A brief landspout occurred over open country and caused no damage. |
| May 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Towner | - | A landspout occurred over open country and caused no damage. |
| May 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Towner | - | A landspout occurred over open country and caused no damage. |
| May 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Towner | - | A landspout occurred over open country and caused no damage. |
| May 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Towner | - | A landspout occurred over open country causing no damage. |
| May 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Towner | - | A landspout occurred over open country and caused no damage. |
| May 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Towner | - | A landspout occurred over open country and caused no damage. |
| May 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Towner | - | A landspout occurred over open country and caused no damage. |
| May 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Towner | - | A tornado occurred over open country causing no damage. |
| May 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Towner | - | A landspout occurred over open country and caused no damage. |
| June 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Towner | - | A tornado occurred in open country of eastern Kiowa county. There was no known damage. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Towner | - | 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 2015 | Hail | Towner | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Towner | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Towner | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Towner | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Towner | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Towner | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Towner | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Towner | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Towner | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Towner | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Towner | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Towner | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Towner | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Towner | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Towner | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Towner | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Towner | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Towner | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Towner | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Towner | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Towner | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Hail | Towner | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Towner | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stuart | 6.1 miles | 15 | |
| Sheridan Lake | 11.3 miles | 14 | |
| Brandon | 19.2 miles | 14 | |
| Chivington | 24.7 miles | 15 | |
| Eads | 37.2 miles | 15 | |
| Hawkins | 45.2 miles | 15 | |
| Galatea | 50.1 miles | 12 | |
| Haswell | 57.4 miles | 13 |
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 Towner | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q9089266 | 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 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.







