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DuNoir, Wyoming

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Dubois census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82513. It stands on Wildcat Creek. The Survey maps it on the Warm Spring Mountain quadrangle.

DuNoir within Fremont County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of DuNoir between 1992 and 2018, burning about 369 acres in total. 14 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
Natural14
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
Other causes1

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
8 September 2015Naturalunder an acreShoshone National ForestWILDCAT FIRE
6 September 2007Naturalunder an acreShoshone National ForestWILDCAT
28 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined359 acresShoshone National ForestCROOKED CREEK
9 August 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreShoshone National ForestCAMP
9 August 2003Naturalunder an acreShoshone National ForestBUFFALO
30 August 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreShoshone National ForestFELLER
26 August 2011Naturalunder an acreShoshone National ForestSNOW SHOE
21 August 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreShoshone National ForestMOON LAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of DuNoir: 7 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Uranium, Thorium, Gold, Thorium. 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
Albright Wash PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Clarke's Camp and Union Pass placer prospectsGold, ThoriumOccurrencePlacer
Helt ClaimsBeryllium, TungstenOccurrence
Wildcat CreekIronOccurrence1950
Halt #1UraniumOccurrence
UnknownThoriumProspect
UnknownThoriumProspect
Warm Spring MountainUraniumUnknown
UnknownGoldOccurrence
UnknownGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Fremont 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
Dubois10.1 miles17
Bain Place19.0 miles13
Burris31.9 miles11
Crowheart37.4 miles10
Collins Place38.5 miles12
Willow Creek40.6 miles10
Morton60.7 miles9
Fort Washakie62.7 miles8

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 DuNoirAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122566467The 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 1599386. 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.