Bosler Junction, Wyoming

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the East Albany census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82051. The Survey maps it on the Bosler quadrangle.

Bosler Junction within Albany County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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 Cheyenne quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Bosler quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Cheyenne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Rock River quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Bosler Junction between 1994 and 2018, burning about 9 acres in total. None 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
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
10 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
6 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Crook County	BOSLER FIRE
15 May 2012	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	BOSLER FIRE
1 October 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Albany 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
Bosler	1.8 miles	8
Wyoming	5.7 miles	18
Cooper Lake	7.2 miles	8
Howell	10.0 miles	18
Lookout	10.1 miles	8
Harper	15.4 miles	8
West Laramie	17.1 miles	19
Laramie	17.3 miles	19

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 Bosler Junction	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30622133	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 1597227. 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.