Blue Hill, Wyoming

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Casper North census division. It stands on Lone Tree Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fiftymile Flat quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Blue Hill within Natrona County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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 Arminto quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Arminto quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Arminto quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Fiftymile Flat quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Midwest quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Blue Hill (historical) between 1995 and 2020, burning about 821 acres in total. 7 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	7

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
5 September 2001	Natural	602 acres	Casper Field Office	MERINO
29 September 2017	Natural	6.7 acres	Casper Field Office	FENCE LINE
8 August 2011	Natural	74 acres	Casper Field Office	SOUTH FORK
6 August 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	BIRK FIRE
9 July 1995	Natural	2.0 acres	Casper Field Office	50 MI FLAT
25 July 2008	Natural	132 acres	Casper Field Office	FIFTYMILE FLAT
19 June 1999	Natural	3.0 acres	Casper Field Office	BUCKNAM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Camel Hump

Every fire recorded in Natrona County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Blue Hill (historical): 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Kidd Ranch North End#12	Bentonite	Occurrence
	Kidd Ranch North End#8	Bentonite	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Natrona 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
Camel Hump	5.5 miles	6
Beck Place	11.7 miles	6
Salt Creek (historical)	18.6 miles	7
Petrie	19.1 miles	6
Bucknum	19.7 miles	6
Natrona	20.3 miles	6
Midwest	22.1 miles	7
Edgerton	23.7 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1597223. 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.