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Coyote Springs, Wyoming

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Hanna census division. It lies near Coyote Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Walcott quadrangle.

Coyote Springs within Carbon 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

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Coyote Springs between 1996 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1

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
29 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresRawlins Field OfficeUP654
27 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresRawlins Field OfficeMM 236
8 August 2004Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeWALCOTT RR
4 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresRawlins Field OfficeWALCOTT
12 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresRawlins Field OfficeMM 241
29 July 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeRR 1
27 July 2001Natural5.0 acresRawlins Field OfficeDANA RIDGE
24 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.7 acresRawlins Field OfficeWALCOTT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Coyote Springs: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lucky Annie ClaimsUraniumOccurrenceTyuyamunite, Metatyuyamunite
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this place

7 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coyote Springs in 7 storm reports between 2015 and 2021: 7 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
September 2021Thunderstorm WindCoyote Springs-WYDOT mesonet station WY15 - Walcott Junction 14 miles east of Sinclair measured wind gust.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindCoyote Springs-Wyoming Department of Transportation sensor along Interstate 80 about fifteen miles east of Sinclair measured the thunderstorm wind gust.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindCoyote Springs-Wyoming Department of Transportation site at Walcott Junction along Interstate 80 measured the reported wind speed.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindCoyote Springs-WYDOT mesonet station WY15 - Walcott Junction along I-80 reported wind gust 15 miles east of Sinclair.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindCoyote Springs-Wyoming Department of Transportation sensor along Interstate 80 at Walcott Junction measured the reported wind gust.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindCoyote Springs-Wyoming Department of Transportation sensor at Walcott Junction along Interstate 80 measured the reported wind speed.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindCoyote Springs-The WYDOT sensor at Walcott Junction measured peak wind gusts of 58 mph.

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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
Edson2.3 miles16
Walcott4.2 miles16
Fort Steele9.3 miles15
Hanna12.6 miles17
Elmo14.1 miles17
Old McKeal Place16.7 miles15
Sampo (historical)16.9 miles13
Sinclair18.2 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1597269. 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.