Big Sandy, Wyoming

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Boulder census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82923. The Survey maps it on the Pocket Creek Lake quadrangle.

Big Sandy within Sublette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1955 USGS Lander quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Lander quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Lander quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1969 USGS Pocket Creek Lake quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Pinedale quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Big Sandy between 1993 and 2014, burning about 30 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
Debris and open burning	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
16 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pinedale Field Office	IRISH CANYON
7 July 2007	Natural	20 acres	Pinedale Field Office	POCKET CREEK FIRE
9 June 2006	Natural	under an acre	Pinedale Field Office	IRISH CANYON
20 October 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
1 October 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
1 January 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sublette County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Big Sandy: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bousman	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Jones	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Speedway Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Sublette 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
Leckie	10.8 miles	11
Temple Creek Summer Home Area	11.0 miles	12
New Fork	14.0 miles	10
Boulder	15.5 miles	10
Elkhorn Junction	18.3 miles	9
Pinedale	26.4 miles	11
Sylvan Bay Summer Home Area	27.9 miles	11
Cora	34.5 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1604595. 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.