BlockBattle Creek, Colorado
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Hayden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81653. It stands on Cantling Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cottonwood Rim quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 17 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.
- 1932 USGS Savery quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1932 USGS Savery quadrangle1:96000
- 1940 USGS Savery quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Cottonwood Rim quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Baggs quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
5 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Battle Creek between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,464 acres in total. 2 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 | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2013 | Natural | 3.5 acres | Rawlins Field Office | PONY FIRE |
| 20 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Carbon County | SLATER |
| 24 April 2012 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | SAVERY ROAD |
| 28 October 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,355 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | BATTLE CREEK |
| 11 October 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 101 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | not named |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 169615. 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.