Timnath History and Balloons

Welcome to Timnath Colorado. Here is a few brief notes about this small town.

The area was first homesteaded by white settlers in 1869. The first schoolhouse was constructed that year, approximately one-half mile west of the current town, and was named "Fairview".

A post office was established in 1884, headed by Reverend Charles A. Taylor, the local Presbyterian minister. When the post office was formed, Taylor bestowed the current name of the town from the 14th chapter of the Book of Judges, as the place where Samson went to obtain a Philistine wife.

During WWII Japan experimented with "Balloon Bombs" that floated across the pacific to the U.S. One of these bombs dropped and exploded near Timnath, Colorado making it the only continental U.S. town to bombed by a foreign country.

Timnath Connection
The Swets family moved away from Alaska before World War II because they feared a Japanese invasion. They moved from Alaska to a farm near Timnath Colorado, a village just east of Fort Collins, where the Japanese bombed them. Their farm was hit by a fu-go incendiary bomb from Japan. http://caveviews.blogs.com/cave_news/2005/03/japan_bombed_co.html

Historical populations
     Census    Pop.    %±
     1930    169    —
     1940    147    -13.0%
     1950    177    20.4%
     1960    150    -15.3%
     1970    177    18.0%
     1980    185    4.5%
     1990    190    2.7%
     2000    223    17.4%
     2010    625     180.3%
Est. 2012   1,157    85.1%

You can pretend this is a virtual and do the Lab cache that is also found at this location. Good Luck

Additional Waypoints

P08JHQM - Parking
N 40° 31.455 W 104° 58.945