Blazon Junction, Wyoming

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Kemmerer East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83101. The Survey maps it on the Elkol quadrangle.

Blazon Junction within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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 Ogden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Elkol quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1979 USGS Kemmerer quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Blazon Junction between 2000 and 2017, burning about 73 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
3 September 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	12 acres	Lincoln County	WESTMORLAND MINE
22 September 2011	Smoking	1.0 acres	Kemmerer Field Office	CIGAR FIRE
22 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kemmerer Field Office	CIGAR 2
26 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kemmerer Field Office	BREESE
27 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kemmerer Field Office	CUMBERLAND
27 June 2000	Natural	55 acres	Rock Springs Field Office	WARFIELD
20 June 2013	Natural	under an acre	Kemmerer Field Office	COAL SEAM 189
19 June 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kemmerer Field Office	CAR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln 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 Blazon Junction: 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. 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
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln 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
Elkol	4.1 miles	11
Diamondville	6.6 miles	10
Kemmerer	7.5 miles	10
Willow Addition	7.9 miles	10
Frontier	9.0 miles	10
Fossil	12.8 miles	10
Opal	13.3 miles	9
Rocky Crossing	23.2 miles	8

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 Q122547206

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 1585651. 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.