Bronx, Wyoming

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Pinedale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83115. It stands on Beaver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Daniel Junction quadrangle.

Bronx within Sublette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

1939 USGS Big Piney quadrangle1:125000
1942 USGS Big Piney quadrangle1:125000
1955 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Daniel Junction quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Afton quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

7 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Bronx between 1992 and 2020, burning about 108 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
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Natural	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
26 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	66 acres	Rock Springs Field Office	FISHHOOK
2 September 2006	Natural	20 acres	Pinedale Field Office	DANIEL
29 August 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Sublette County	POWER POLE FIRE
23 July 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Pinedale Field Office	WARREN BRINDGE
5 June 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Sublette County	WASHAKIE FIRE
26 April 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Sublette County	FORTY ROD
1 January 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Sublette County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Bronx: 10 unknowns, 1 past producer. 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
Apex Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Daylite Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Forty Rod North	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Forty Rod Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lot Two Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
North Pape Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Pape Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Quarter Corner Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Que Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown Gravel 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
Daniel Junction	7.5 miles	10
Cora	8.1 miles	10
Daniel	9.2 miles	10
Merna	12.3 miles	10
Pinedale	16.1 miles	11
Halfway	17.4 miles	10
Sylvan Bay Summer Home Area	17.7 miles	11
Bondurant	21.3 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1597231. 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.