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Clay Spur, Wyoming

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Newcastle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82730. It stands on East Iron Creek. The Survey maps it on the Clay Spur quadrangle.

Clay Spur within Weston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Clay Spur between 1992 and 2020, burning about 88 acres in total. 8 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/undetermined13
Natural8
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Fireworks3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
7 September 2015Fireworks1.6 acresMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandBUTCHER FIRE
30 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
13 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandTHORTON & CLAY SPUR
8 August 2013Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWyoming State ForestryRRMM 535 FIRE
8 August 2005Natural11 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
5 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
3 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
27 August 2020Natural4.6 acresNew Castle Field OfficeTURNER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Weston County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Clay Spur: 6 occurrences, 2 producers, 2 prospects. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Bentonite, Uranium, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Beaver CreekBentonite, Gypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence
Farley No.2UraniumProspect
Farley No.3UraniumProspect
Imoorcroft - Upton - OsageBentoniteProducerBentonite
OsageBentoniteOccurrence
Osage,Clay Spur QuarriesBentoniteProducer
Turner CreekBentoniteOccurrence
UnknownBentoniteOccurrence
UnknownBentoniteOccurrence
UnnamedBentoniteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Weston 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
Jerome3.4 miles12
Osage4.1 miles9
Skull Creek8.3 miles16
Upton9.6 miles12
Colloid11.3 miles12
Bentley12.6 miles12
Cambria (historical)15.3 miles11
Horton16.2 miles15

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 Q122564016The 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 1586755. 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.