Emblem, Wyoming
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Central Big Horn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82422. It stands on Horse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Emblem quadrangle. It stands 4,449 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Cody quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Cody quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Cody quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Emblem quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Powell quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
15 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Emblem between 1995 and 2020, burning about 99 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2020 | Smoking | 50 acres | Bighorn County | GRASS FIRE |
| 4 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Bighorn County | B HILL BARROW DITCH FIRE |
| 18 August 2011 | Natural | 16 acres | Worland Field Office | DRY CREEK |
| 8 July 2018 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Bighorn County | EMBLEM BENCH LIGHTNING STRIKE |
| 4 July 2018 | Fireworks | under an acre | Cody Field Office | TABLE |
| 24 July 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Bighorn County | WEED BURN |
| 6 June 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Bighorn County | EMBLEM BENCH GRASS FIRE |
| 20 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Bighorn County | DITCH FIRE EMBLEM |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Emblem in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2015: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2015 | Hail | Emblem | - | Hail up to the size of golf balls was reported near Emblem. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Emblem | - | A cooperative observer near Emblem had penny sized hail at their residence. |
| August 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Emblem | - | Several reports were received from public sources of a small tornado being viewed looking west from U.S. Highway 310 between Greybull and Lovell. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Emblem | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Emblem | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Emblem | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emblem | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burlington | 4.6 miles | 8 | |
| Otto | 9.4 miles | 7 | |
| Greybull | 17.8 miles | 7 | |
| Hewitt Place | 19.2 miles | 7 | |
| Basin | 20.6 miles | 7 | |
| Byron | 20.9 miles | 7 | |
| Lovell | 22.9 miles | 9 | |
| Sales Place | 23.1 miles | 7 |
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 Emblem | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5370056 | The 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 1609087. 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.
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.




