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Carlile Junction, Wyoming

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Sundance census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82729. It lies near Castle Rocks. The Survey maps it on the Devils Tower quadrangle. It stands 4,203 feet above sea level.

Carlile Junction within Crook County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Carlile Junction between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,120 acres in total. 13 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
Natural13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning1

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
24 September 1992Natural2.5 acresDevils Tower National MonumentCAMPSTOOL
2 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,000 acresDevils Tower National MonumentWEEHINKLE
11 September 2019Natural1.0 acresCrook CountyDEAN FIRE
8 August 2005Naturalunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestSUNNY
28 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
11 August 1995Naturalunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestOAK CREEK
3 July 2004Naturalunder an acreNew Castle Field OfficePRAIRIE DO
27 July 2008Naturalunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestCROSS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crook County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Carlile Junction: 8 past producers, 7 occurrences, 3 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Campstool 9 and 11UraniumOccurrence
Carlile MineUraniumPast Producer1952, 1953, 1955
GriffithUraniumPast Producer
Homestake 2UraniumUnknown
Homestake Lode 1UraniumPast Producer
Laymon LeaseUraniumPast ProducerUraninite
Manke LeaseUraniumPast Producer
MyersUraniumUnknown
Nubeth Joint VentureUraniumProducer
Paul MyersUraniumProspect

Every working recorded in Crook 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
Devils Tower6.0 miles13
Carlile6.1 miles15
Pine Haven11.9 miles14
Hulett13.3 miles12
Linden13.4 miles13
Oshoto14.5 miles12
Sundance17.8 miles16
New Haven18.6 miles12

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 Q19460844The 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 1597251. 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.