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Deerwood, Wyoming

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the South Albany census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82070. The Survey maps it on the Albany quadrangle.

Deerwood within Albany County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

32 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Deerwood between 1993 and 2016, burning about 32 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 2 were 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
Recreation and ceremony12
Natural9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
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
5 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland305
3 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandROAD 305
6 August 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandSTRAIN CREEK #2
6 August 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandSTRAIN CREEK
28 August 2011Naturalunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandDEERWOOD
26 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grasslandnot named
25 August 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandLOG
24 August 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandOVAL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Albany County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Deerwood: 13 past producers, 9 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Platinum, Uranium, Silver. 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
Archer Placer ClaimGold, Iridium, Platinum, Osmium, PalladiumProducerStream Placer
Centennial Ridge DistrictGold, Platinum, PalladiumPast Producer1874, 1875
Columbine MineCopper, Silver, Gold, PlatinumPast Producer1927
Empire MineSilver, Gold, Copper, Platinum, Palladium, Osmium, Ruthenium, Rhodium, IridiumPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Malachite, Pyrite
Fall Creek PlacerGold, Rhodium, Osmium, PlatinumPast ProducerStream Placer
Free Gold ClaimGold, Copper, Silver, PlatinumPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Gold, Malachite, Pyrite
Independence MineSilver, Copper, Gold, Platinum, Palladium, Rhodium, Nickel, Osmium, IridiumPast ProducerGold, Pyrite
Independence PlacerGold, Osmium, Ruthenium, Rhodium, Palladium, PlatinumOccurrenceStream Placer
Kentucky Derby MineCopper, Gold, Silver, Iridium, Osmium, Palladium, PlatinumPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Gold, Malachite, Pyrite
Queen Mill RunGold, Palladium, Osmium, Iridium, PlatinumPast ProducerStream Placer

Every working recorded in Albany County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deerwood in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 flash flood. 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
August 2022Flash FloodDeerwood-Reported flooding across low lying areas south of Centennial near the North Fork Little Laramie River after 2 inches of heavy rain fell in less than an hour just north of Centennial and on the west slopes of Sheep Mountain.

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
Albany3.6 miles14
Centennial4.3 miles17
Keystone8.2 miles17
Collins (historical)8.9 miles17
Hatton9.2 miles23
Woods Landing10.7 miles16
Foxpark10.9 miles17
New Jelm12.5 miles16

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.

Wikipedia article on DeerwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30622132The 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 1599217. 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.