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Creston, Wyoming

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Wamsutter census division. The Survey maps it on the Creston quadrangle. It stands 7,107 feet above sea level.

Creston within Sweetwater County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

46 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Creston between 1993 and 2019, burning about 861 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/undetermined20
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Fireworks6
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
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
5 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeMM183
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined21 acresRawlins Field OfficeCONTINENTAL DIVIDE
29 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCarbon CountyMP7 789
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeMM188
27 September 2010Fireworks1.0 acresWyoming State ForestryCRESTON FW
27 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeTIE
23 September 2001Railroad operations and maintenance2.2 acresRawlins Field OfficeRR709
18 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use20 acresRawlins Field OfficeCONTINENTAL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sweetwater County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Creston: 2 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Pumice. 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
UnknownPumiceProspect
Continental DivideUraniumProspect
UnknownUraniumOccurrence
BLMSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Creston Pit #8Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
State Highway Department Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Sand and Gravel pitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sweetwater County

Storms near this place

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Creston in 1 storm report in 1998: 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 1998Funnel CloudCreston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sweetwater 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
Creston Junction2.2 miles10
Riner11.1 miles10
Wamsutter12.0 miles11
Red Desert19.7 miles8
Tipton27.4 miles7
Robinson30.8 miles7
Table Rock34.0 miles7
J O Junction35.6 miles7

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 Q138349862The 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 1587215. 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.