Camel Hump, Wyoming

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Casper North census division. The Survey maps it on the Camel Hump Reservoir quadrangle. It stands 5,564 feet above sea level.

Camel Hump 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.

1955 USGS Arminto quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Arminto quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Arminto quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Camel Hump Reservoir quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Midwest quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Camel Hump between 1999 and 2016, burning about 4 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/undetermined	1
Natural	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
31 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
19 June 1999	Natural	3.0 acres	Casper Field Office	BUCKNAM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Blue Hill (historical)

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Blue Hill (historical)	5.5 miles	7
Salt Creek (historical)	13.2 miles	7
Beck Place	13.8 miles	6
Midwest	17.0 miles	7
Edgerton	18.5 miles	7
Bucknum	19.9 miles	6
Antelope Hills	20.2 miles	7
Petrie	21.0 miles	6

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 Q14714681

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 1597244. 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.