BlockCalpet, Wyoming
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Big Piney census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83113. It stands on South Fork Birch Creek. The Survey maps it on The Hogsback quadrangle. 7 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 6,827 feet above sea level.
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.
- 1955 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS The Hogsback quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Fontenelle Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Calpet between 1994 and 2018, burning about 83 acres in total. 2 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 | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Pinedale Field Office | LA BARGE |
| 5 July 1994 | Natural | 12 acres | Rock Springs Field Office | LABARGE |
| 11 July 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Rock Springs Field Office | MILLER MTN |
| 25 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 55 acres | Pinedale Field Office | RAFF |
| 27 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Pinedale Field Office | LABARGE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Calpet: 2 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Viola Area | Stone, Dimension | Occurrence | ||
| Government | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Housley | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Sims/LaBarge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand and Gravel pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calpet in 4 storm reports between 2017 and 2018: 2 flood, 2 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2018 | Flash Flood | Calpet | - | The Sublette County emergency manager reported 14 inches of water flowing across Highway 189 6 miles north of Labarge. The flooding receded after a clogged culvert was cleared. |
| March 2017 | Flood | Calpet | - | Sublette County Emergency Management reported flooding along portions of Highway 372 between Mile Markers 40 and 48. That portion of the road was closed for over 24 hours before the waters receded. |
| March 2017 | Flash Flood | Calpet | - | The Sublette County Emergency Manager reported a couple of houses had water in the basements along the Green River above the Fontenelle Reservoir. |
| June 2017 | Flood | Calpet | - | The Sublette County emergency manager reported widespread low land flooding around Labarge along the Green River. Hardest hit were areas around Whalen Road, where up to three feet of water was running across the road at certain times in early and mid June. Many other BLM and USFS roads were completely washed out. |
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.
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 Calpet | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1920657 | 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 1586282. 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.