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Dale Creek, Wyoming

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the South Albany census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82070. The Survey maps it on the Dale Creek quadrangle.

Dale Creek within Albany County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Dale Creek between 1994 and 2018, burning about 84 acres in total. 4 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
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Debris and open burning1

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
27 September 1994Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grasslandnot named
18 September 2018Natural50 acresRawlins Field OfficePUMPKIN VINE
17 August 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandVEDUAWOO
10 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
4 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRawlins Field OfficePYRAMID
18 July 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandPOTATO CHIP
17 July 2005Natural20 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
29 June 2012Naturalunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandBOX CANYON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Albany County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Dale Creek: 5 past producers, 5 prospects, 4 occurrences, 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Feldspar, Garnet, Copper. 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
Bucaneer ProspectCopper, IronOccurrenceIron, Malachite
Sherman Group ProspectCopper, GoldOccurrenceGold
Smaller Deposit #12-Iron Mtn areaTitanium, IronProspectMagnetite, Ilmenite
Copper Float Group (Tie Siding)CopperProspect
Tie Siding AreaFeldspar, GarnetPast Producer
Tie Siding AreaFeldspar, GarnetPast Producer
Tie Siding AreaFeldspar, GarnetPast Producer
Tie Siding AreaFeldspar, GarnetPast Producer
Tie Siding AreaFeldspar, GarnetPast Producer
No Name PegmatitesUraniumProspect

Every working recorded in Albany County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dale Creek in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2020: 1 hail, 1 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
July 2020Thunderstorm WindDale Creek-Union Pacific Railroad site Dale measured the reported wind speed.
June 2014HailDale Creek-Quarter size hail was observed on US Highway 287 just north of the Colorado state line.

Every storm recorded in Albany 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
Sherman2.4 miles16
Hermosa5.1 miles16
Buford5.3 miles16
Tie Siding6.2 miles19
Hirsig8.9 miles19
The Buttes11.2 miles18
Red Buttes12.8 miles18
Laramie19.0 miles19

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 Q30622130The 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 1587329. 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.