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Boxelder, Wyoming

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Glenrock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82637. It stands on Snowshoe Creek. The Survey maps it on the Buffalo Peak quadrangle.

Boxelder within Converse 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.

Fires near this place

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Boxelder between 1995 and 1996, burning about 3 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined4
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
17 August 1996Natural1.0 acresCasper Field OfficeNEGRO GULC
1 October 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
1 October 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
1 October 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
1 October 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Converse County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Boxelder: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kerr-Mcgee Post Grp.Claims-No.2UraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Converse County

Storms near this place

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boxelder in 4 storm reports between 2017 and 2018: 3 hail, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2017Tornado (EF1)Boxelder-A brief tornado spin-up occurred along Cold Springs Road southwest of Douglas. An outbuilding was completely destroyed (DI 1, DOD 8).
July 2018HailBoxelder-no account filed
July 2018HailBoxelder-no account filed
July 2018HailBoxelder-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Converse 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Buck Place4.2 miles10
Leahy Place8.6 miles10
Glenrock17.1 miles9
Parkerton17.4 miles9
Clayton17.5 miles9
Rolling Hills19.9 miles9
Orpha25.1 miles9
Douglas27.2 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1597587. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.