BlockBuck Place, Wyoming
10 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 Bill Young Creek. The Survey maps it on the Buck Peak quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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 Torrington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Torrington quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Buck Peak quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Buck Peak quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
12 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Buck Place between 1994 and 2005, burning about 7 acres in total. 8 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 | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
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 August 1996 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | LONG WALK |
| 27 August 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | BOXELDER #1 |
| 27 August 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | LONE TREE |
| 17 August 1996 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Casper Field Office | NEGRO GULC |
| 12 July 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Casper Field Office | AUNT AG |
| 11 July 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | GUNNYSACK |
| 11 July 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | not named |
| 2 October 2005 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | BUCK CREEK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Buck Place: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Uranium | Occurrence |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boxelder | 4.2 miles | 9 | |
| Leahy Place | 4.8 miles | 10 | |
| Parkerton | 19.3 miles | 9 | |
| Glenrock | 19.9 miles | 9 | |
| Clayton | 21.2 miles | 9 | |
| Rolling Hills | 23.0 miles | 9 | |
| Orpha | 29.4 miles | 9 | |
| Douglas | 31.3 miles | 10 |
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 Q122558918 | 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 1597234. 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.