Beaver Creek, Wyoming

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Jackson Hole census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83012. It stands on Taggart Creek. The Survey maps it on the Moose quadrangle.

Beaver Creek within Teton County

On record in Beaver Creek

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Administrative Area Historic District, Oldlisted 1990 · 0.1 miles away
Manges Cabinlisted 1998 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

1899 USGS Grand Teton quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Grand Teton quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Moose quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Jackson Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Beaver Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,128 acres in total. 39 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	39
Smoking	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Other causes	1

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 2008	Smoking	under an acre	Grand Teton National Park	BAT HOUSE
5 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Grand Teton National Park	RIVERBANK
21 September 2003	Natural	1.0 acres	Grand Teton National Park	W. TAGGART
14 September 2006	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Grand Teton National Park	POWERLINE
11 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Grand Teton National Park	GARNET FIRE
1 September 2019	Smoking	under an acre	Grand Teton National Park	LUPINE
5 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Grand Teton National Park	MOOSE PONDS
28 August 1994	Natural	1,077 acres	Bridger-Teton National Forest	ROW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Teton 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
Moose	2.3 miles	15
Grovont	4.8 miles	15
Kelly	7.4 miles	15
Teton Village	8.4 miles	17
Elk	12.1 miles	16
Moose Wilson Road	12.6 miles	17
Jackson	14.4 miles	14
Wilson	14.8 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1597217. 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.