BlockCarbon, Wyoming
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Hanna census division. It lies near Number 5 Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Carbon quadrangle. It stands 6,831 feet above sea level.
On record in Carbon
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Carbon Cemeterylisted 2011
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 12 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.
- 1914 USGS Saddleback Hills quadrangle1:62500
- 1921 USGS Saddleback Hills quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Carbon quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Medicine Bow quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
3 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Carbon between 2000 and 2008, burning about 644 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 August 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 580 acres | Rawlins Field Office | COMO LAKE |
| 15 August 2004 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 61 acres | Rawlins Field Office | COMO |
| 23 July 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.1 acres | Rawlins Field Office | MILE POST 261 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sampo (historical) | 7.1 miles | 13 | |
| Elmo | 8.7 miles | 17 | |
| Medicine Bow | 9.7 miles | 14 | |
| Hanna | 9.9 miles | 17 | |
| Elk Mountain | 11.3 miles | 11 | |
| Old Brooks Place | 11.4 miles | 11 | |
| Oil Springs | 11.4 miles | 12 | |
| Widdowfield (historical) | 15.9 miles | 12 |
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 Carbon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14714683 | 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 1597247. 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.