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Bucknum, Wyoming

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Hells Half Acre census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82604. It lies near Tie Bridge Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Burlington Lake quadrangle.

Bucknum within Natrona County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Bucknum between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,251 acres in total. 11 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
Natural11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Firearms and explosives use1

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
4 September 2001Natural1,354 acresCasper Field OfficeCASPER CRE
20 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
14 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
1 September 2011Natural30 acresCasper Field OfficeNATRONA 3
4 August 2018Natural100 acresNatrona CountySAND HILL
4 August 2018Firearms and explosives use7.2 acresCasper Field OfficeSANDHILLS
18 August 2000Natural157 acresCasper Field OfficeGLODENEYE
15 August 2011Natural233 acresCasper Field OfficeBUCKNUM 3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Natrona County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bucknum in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2015: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail. 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 2015HailBucknum-Ping pong ball sized hail was observed by a trained spotter near the intersection of US Highway 20/26 and Bucknum Road west of Casper.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindBucknum-A storm chaser estimated gusts of at least 60 mph from an outflow boundary northwest of Casper.
June 2013Funnel CloudBucknum-A funnel cloud was observed about 20 miles northwest of Casper.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Petrie6.1 miles6
Beck Place9.3 miles6
Natrona9.7 miles6
Bishop10.3 miles11
Air Base Acres13.7 miles11
Homa Hills14.3 miles11
Vista West14.7 miles11
Antelope Hills16.5 miles7

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 BucknumAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19600610The 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 1597236. 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.

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.