Cow Hollow, Wyoming

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Casper South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82636. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lockett quadrangle.

Cow Hollow within Natrona County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1950 USGS Lockett quadrangle1:24000
1955 USGS Casper quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Casper quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Lockett quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1962 USGS Casper quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Casper quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Casper quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Cow Hollow between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19,497 acres in total. 16 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/undetermined	39
Natural	16
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Fireworks	2
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.3 acres	Casper Field Office	MILE MARKER 172
2 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.2 acres	Casper Field Office	GEARY
2 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
1 September 2015	Natural	6.3 acres	Casper Field Office	SANDPIPER
8 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Casper Field Office	BIG MUDDY POND
8 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
5 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Converse County	172A
5 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Casper Field Office	BIG MUDDY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Natrona County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Cow Hollow: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unknown	Uranium	Past Producer
Bradshaw Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
East Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
State Land Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Natrona 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Meadow Acres	0.8 miles	11
Brookhurst	6.9 miles	11
Strouds	7.1 miles	11
Evansville	8.6 miles	11
Casper	11.0 miles	11
Allendale	11.1 miles	11
Thorndale Acres	11.2 miles	11
Crimson Dawn	12.3 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1597268. 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.