Tampa

Tampa is an unincorporated community in Weld County, Colorado, United States. The rural community is served by an 80643 ZIP code.

History

.Old timers in the area advise that Tampa was a departure point for an old railroad spur called the Tampa Spur. Tampa was located on the old CB&Q line (now BNSF, Burlington Northern, Santa Fe), about halfway between Roggen and Keenesburg.Old timers advise that the Tampa Spur was a 1.5-mile-long railroad spur between Tampa and a place to the south called Sheehan, near the Prospect Valley, and that the spur functioned as a sugar beet dump. A beet dump was an elevated facility that allowed farmers to deposit newly harvested produce into open railroad cars. According to these old timers, the Tampa Spur was built in 1882. It was still on the railroad maps in 1983, but does not appear on current railroad maps. Plains All American constructed new crude oil rail facilities in Tampa, Colo. The new rail facilities and modifications are expected were completed by in 2013 at an aggregate cost of approximately $125 million.The Tampa facility is located approximately 50 miles northeast of Denver and is designed to receive crude oil via truck and pipeline and to load unit and manifest trains at a rate of up to 68,000 barrels per day. The facility is being built to service increasing DJ Basin crude oil production and is underpinned by firm contracts with large independent producers. BNSF Railway Company will provide the rail transportation for the facility.

Geography

Tampa is located at 40.149982N, 104.455512W

Comment

Tampa only exists because of railroad infrastructure. I would have like to get closer to what appears to be an abandoned old locomotive