Battle, Wyoming

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Saratoga census division. It lies near Doane Peak. The Survey maps it on the Red Mountain quadrangle. It stands 9,924 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Battle within Carbon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1939 USGS Saratoga quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Red Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1962 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Saratoga quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Battle (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1 acre in total. 6 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	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
8 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	BABY
10 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	not named
1 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	BATTLE CREEK
6 August 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	NELLIE
5 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	BATTLE LAKE
19 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	GREEN MOUNTAIN
19 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	PAXSON
16 August 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	BOTTLE CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Battle (historical): 10 past producers, 10 occurrences, 10 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Iron, Gold, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Creede Prospect	Copper, Iron, Nickel, Cobalt	Occurrence	Magnetite, Pyrrhotite, Chalcopyrite
Doane-Rambler Mine (including Rex Mine)	Silver, Gold, Copper, Cobalt, Uranium	Past Producer	stratabound
Encampment District	Copper, Zinc, Lead, Silver, Gold	Past Producer
Ferris-Haggarty Mine	Copper, Silver, Gold, Uranium	Past Producer	1897
Gertrude	Copper, Iron, Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Hidden Treasure Mine	Copper, Gold, Iron	Past Producer	Vein
Portland Mine and Hercules Mine	Copper, Palladium, Platinum, Gold, Silver	Prospect	Chalcopyrite, Chalcocite, Bornite
Standard Park Area	Stone, Granite, Dimension	Occurrence
Taylor Claim	Copper, Gold, Bismuth	Occurrence	Bismutite, Bismite, Gold, Copper
Unknown	Gemstone	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Carbon 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
Rambler (historical)	1.3 miles	16
Rudefeha (historical)	5.2 miles	16
Elwood (historical)	5.5 miles	17
Dillon (historical)	6.0 miles	16
Copperton (historical)	7.5 miles	16
Encampment	10.9 miles	16
Riverside	11.6 miles	16
Dexterville (historical)	15.0 miles	17

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 Battle (historical)	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4869943	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 1597963. 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.