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Tyrone, Colorado

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Model census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81059. The Survey maps it on the Tyrone quadrangle. It stands 5,541 feet above sea level.

Tyrone within Las Animas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Tyrone between 1994 and 2005, burning about 108 acres in total. 1 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
Natural1

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
26 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
30 June 1994Natural8.0 acresLas Animas Countynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Las Animas County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Tyrone: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gravel PitsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Las Animas County

Storms near this place

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tyrone in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 6 hail, 4 heavy rain, 2 tornado. 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
August 2020Heavy RainTyrone-Heavy rainfall of 2.21 inches. Van Bremer Arroyo.
August 2020Heavy RainTyrone-Heavy rainfall of 1.79 inches. Brown Sheep Camp.
June 2020Heavy RainTyrone-Heavy rain, 2.38 inches.
June 2020Heavy RainTyrone-Heavy rain, 2.53 inches. 24 hour total.
June 2004Tornado (F0)Tyrone-A brief tornado occurred over open country with no known damage.
July 2000Tornado (F0)Tyrone-A small, short-lived tornado caused no known damage over open country of north-central Las Animas county.
May 2017HailTyrone-no account filed
May 2017HailTyrone-no account filed
July 2016HailTyrone-no account filed
May 2012HailTyrone-no account filed
September 1998HailTyrone-no account filed
August 1996HailTyrone-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Las Animas 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
Simpson3.7 miles16
Model6.0 miles17
Earl9.1 miles16
Houghton12.8 miles16
Hoehne15.0 miles15
Patterson Crossing16.3 miles15
Delhi16.4 miles17
Beshoar19.4 miles18

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 TyroneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7861563The 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 204807. 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.