Elk, Wyoming

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Jackson Hole census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83012. The Survey maps it on the Moran quadrangle.

Elk within Teton County

On record in Elk

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Cunningham Cabinlisted 1973 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1899 USGS Grand Teton quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Grand Teton quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Moran quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Jackson Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1996 USGS Moran quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Elk between 1992 and 2020, burning about 75 acres in total. 30 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
Natural	30
Recreation and ceremony	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 2016	Natural	1.5 acres	Grand Teton National Park	BURNED RIDGE
29 September 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Teton National Park	PIE PLATE
21 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Grand Teton National Park	ELK RANCH
19 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Grand Teton National Park	SPALDING
16 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Bridger-Teton National Forest	COAL CREEK
13 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Grand Teton National Park	CHIEF
12 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Bridger-Teton National Forest	TRIANGLE
11 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Grand Teton National Park	DWYER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Moran

Every fire recorded in Teton County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Elk: 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Cowboy Lode	Uranium	Occurrence
Unknown	Gold	Occurrence
Unknown	Gold	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Teton 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Moran	4.3 miles	16
Colter Bay Village	9.5 miles	15
Grovont	11.6 miles	15
Kelly	12.0 miles	15
Beaver Creek	12.1 miles	15
Moose	12.8 miles	15
Teton Village	20.2 miles	17
Moose Wilson Road	23.9 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1604594. 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.