GC4QK6Z Traditional Cache Timnath Historic Cache
Type: Traditional | Size: Not chosen Not chosen | Difficulty: 2 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: barasaur @ | Hide Date: 10/20/2013 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N40° 31.450 W104° 58.925 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
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%

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10 Logs: Found it 9  Didn't find it 1  

Found it 06/29/2019 By poisonlady
Found it right where it’s supposed to be..SL and TFTC!

Found it 06/16/2019 By SteveBohnke
TFTC:)

Found it 05/12/2019 By caseyleemiller
easy peasy

Found it 05/11/2019 By undianajones
Yay! Windy day for geocaching but thanks!

Found it 04/14/2019 By emtknuth
Nice history info thx

Didn't find it 09/01/2018 By MamaBearHawk
Looked everywhere but nothing was there.

Found it 07/14/2018 By bothofus+2
Tnlnsl tftc. Heads up this is a great hide

Found it 06/20/2018 By ywillett
Wow that was awesome only took 1 min to find. Always keep your chin up.

TFTC

Found it 06/14/2018 By Paws44
Very clever. Nice high. Made the find.

Found it 06/14/2018 By wpolomom
Clever hide!