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Airport Road, Wyoming

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Worland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82401. It lies near Sand Knoll Draw. The Survey maps it on the Banjo Flats West quadrangle. 297 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 4,121 feet above sea level.

Airport Road within Washakie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

334 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 334 fires within 5 miles of Airport Road between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,246 acres in total. 19 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
Fireworks131
Missing data/not specified/undetermined108
Debris and open burning50
Natural19
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony8
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
2 September 2017Fireworks1.0 acresWashakie County1291 AIRPORT
2 September 2017Fireworks1.0 acresWashakie CountySAGE CROSSING
19 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWashakie County20-144
13 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashakie CountySOUTH FLAT 137 FIRE
12 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWashakie County1563 JIMS PATH
1 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashakie County2020-160
6 August 2009Naturalunder an acreWorland Field OfficeSAND KNOLL
5 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWyoming State Forestry13-00134

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washakie County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Airport Road: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Bentonite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bentonite MineBentoniteProducer
Worland Betonite MillClayProducer
GeeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Howard PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mccormac Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
State Mat PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Washakie 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Worland1.7 miles10
Colter4.3 miles10
South Flat5.3 miles10
West River7.3 miles10
Washakie Ten7.4 miles10
Durkee9.7 miles9
Eccles10.2 miles9
Winchester14.5 miles10

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.

Wikipedia article on Airport RoadAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1953356The 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 1853194. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.