BlockClareton, Wyoming
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Newcastle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82701. The Survey maps it on the Clareton quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 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 Newcastle quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Newcastle quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Newcastle quadrangle1:100000
- 1982 USGS Clareton quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
18 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Clareton (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,705 acres in total. 11 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 | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2010 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 137 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | TEXAS TRAIL FIRE |
| 6 August 2010 | Natural | 16 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | KOCH FIRE |
| 26 August 1997 | Natural | 200 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | FIELD |
| 21 August 2014 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | NEWTON |
| 21 August 2014 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | NEWTON FIRE |
| 2 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Weston County | HAGLUND |
| 6 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Weston County | WIDLCAT CREEK |
| 4 July 1994 | Natural | 320 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | FIELD RANCH |
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.
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 Clareton (historical) | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q16987498 | 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 1597258. 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.