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Colter Bay Village, Wyoming

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Jackson Hole census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83013. It lies near Moose Island. The Survey maps it on the Colter Bay quadrangle.

Colter Bay Village within Teton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Colter Bay Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,518 acres in total. 35 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
Natural35
Recreation and ceremony20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Smoking6
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 1998Natural1.5 acresGrand Teton National ParkCOLTER
6 September 2007Natural9.0 acresGrand Teton National ParkMATILDA
6 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkI-LOOP
4 September 2016Naturalunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkPILGRIM MEADOWS
2 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkCOLTER BAY D101
16 September 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestBEAR BARREL
14 September 2010Natural12 acresBridger-Teton National ForestWILLOW DRAW
8 August 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkSIGNAL SITE 41

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Teton County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Colter Bay Village: 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Gold. 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
UnknownGoldOccurrence
Corridor Pumicite OccurrencePumiceOccurrence
UnknownPumiceProspect

Every working recorded in Teton County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Colter Bay Village in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2016: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2013Thunderstorm WindColter Bay Village1 hurt, $20,000Gusty outflow wind from a collapsing rain shower blew down or broke over 100 trees at Colter Bay Campground and RV Park. Three or four of the falling trees struck and damaged vehicles at the park. One large branch, estimated to be 40 feet long and nearly one foot in diameter, struck a 30-year-old woman. The woman was life-flighted to a regional hospital with critical injuries.
August 2016HailColter Bay Village-The public reported quarter sized hail at Colter Bay Village.
May 2014HailColter Bay Village-Numerous spotters reported nickel to quarter sized hail in and around Colter Bay.

Every storm recorded in Teton 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
Moran8.3 miles16
Elk9.5 miles16
Beaver Creek15.8 miles15
Moose17.7 miles15
Grovont18.0 miles15
Kelly19.5 miles15
Alta23.4 miles10
Teton Village24.0 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1586909. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.