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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.

Emblem within Big Horn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

15 since 1995

Regional 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1
Smoking1

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
7 September 2020Smoking50 acresBighorn CountyGRASS FIRE
4 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBighorn CountyB HILL BARROW DITCH FIRE
18 August 2011Natural16 acresWorland Field OfficeDRY CREEK
8 July 2018Natural5.0 acresBighorn CountyEMBLEM BENCH LIGHTNING STRIKE
4 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreCody Field OfficeTABLE
24 July 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresBighorn CountyWEED BURN
6 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreBighorn CountyEMBLEM BENCH GRASS FIRE
20 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreBighorn CountyDITCH FIRE EMBLEM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Big Horn County

Storms near this place

7 since 2001

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2015HailEmblem-Hail up to the size of golf balls was reported near Emblem.
June 2013HailEmblem-A cooperative observer near Emblem had penny sized hail at their residence.
August 2010Tornado (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 2006HailEmblem-no account filed
June 2006HailEmblem-no account filed
August 2002HailEmblem-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindEmblem-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Big Horn 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
Burlington4.6 miles8
Otto9.4 miles7
Greybull17.8 miles7
Hewitt Place19.2 miles7
Basin20.6 miles7
Byron20.9 miles7
Lovell22.9 miles9
Sales Place23.1 miles7

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 EmblemAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5370056The 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.