Adon, Wyoming

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1975. It stands in the Gillette North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82727. It stands on Mitchell Creek. The Survey maps it on the Adon quadrangle.

Adon within Campbell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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.

1954 USGS Gillette quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Gillette quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Gillette quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Gillette quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Adon quadrangle1:24000
1975 USGS Recluse quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

35 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Adon between 1996 and 2020, burning about 678 acres in total. 22 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
Natural	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
22 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
2 September 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Campbell County	ADON
11 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	4.4 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	ADON ROAD FIRE
6 August 2010	Natural	11 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	1534
31 August 2011	Natural	17 acres	Buffalo Field Office	ADON ROAD
31 August 2010	Natural	34 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	SPRING CREEK
29 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Campbell County	MITCHELL CREEK 2
28 August 2020	Natural	2.8 acres	Buffalo Field Office	MITCHELL CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Campbell 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Weston	9.8 miles	8
Rozet	16.6 miles	8
Wyodak	17.5 miles	10
Collins Heights	19.1 miles	10
Gillette	21.2 miles	9
Sleepy Hollow	21.6 miles	9
Sunburst	22.7 miles	10
Crestview	23.1 miles	9

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.

Wikidata item Q30622323

The 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 1597690. 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.