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Canyon Junction, Wyoming

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Yellowstone National Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82190. It lies near Cascade Meadows. The Survey maps it on the Canyon Village quadrangle.

Canyon Junction within Park County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

29 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Canyon Junction between 1993 and 2019, burning about 549 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 1 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
Natural16
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
5 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreYellowstone National ParkGREBE
21 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreYellowstone National ParkCANYON
17 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreYellowstone National ParkRIBBON
5 August 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreYellowstone National ParkDEVIL
3 August 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreYellowstone National ParkRIBBON
28 August 2003Naturalunder an acreYellowstone National ParkBUCKET
20 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreYellowstone National ParkBIGHORN
2 August 2009Naturalunder an acreYellowstone National ParkCORRAL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Park 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
Canyon Village0.2 miles22
Bannock Ford12.5 miles24
Tower Junction13.1 miles24
Yanceys13.8 miles24
Buffalo Ford14.4 miles24
Mammoth19.9 miles20
Soda Butte (historical)20.5 miles21
Pahaska Tepee32.4 miles19

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 Q122561855The 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 1597245. 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.