Flitners Corner, Wyoming

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Central Big Horn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82426. It stands on Beaver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Shell quadrangle.

Flitners Corner within Big Horn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1898 USGS Bald Mountain quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1901 USGS Bald Mountain quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Shell quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Burgess Junction quadrangle1:100000
1979 USGS Burgess Junction quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Shell quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

19 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Flitners Corner between 1995 and 2020, burning about 3,125 acres in total. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Natural	6
Debris and open burning	4
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
2 September 2017	Debris and open burning	72 acres	Worland Field Office	DOUGLAS DRAW
16 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Worland Field Office	SHELL
9 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Bighorn National Forest	CASTLE ROCK
15 August 2003	Natural	2,500 acres	Worland Field Office	COPPER
9 July 2014	Natural	under an acre	Cody Field Office	BEAVER CREEK
9 July 2014	Natural	3.5 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
7 July 2014	Debris and open burning	62 acres	Worland Field Office	RED GULCH
31 July 2020	Debris and open burning	432 acres	Bighorn County	BEAVER CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Big Horn County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Flitners Corner: 11 occurrences, 7 unknowns, 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Bentonite, Clay. 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
Snake Mine	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown	Clay	Occurrence
Greybull Area #1	Bentonite	Producer
L.E.Collingwood Bent.Mine & Mill	Bentonite	Producer
Shell Canal	Bentonite	Unknown
Big Hill Group	Uranium	Occurrence
Big Hill Group	Uranium	Occurrence
Big Hill Group	Uranium	Occurrence
Big Hill Group	Uranium	Unknown
Big Hill Group	Uranium	Occurrence

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Reeves Corner	0.6 miles	16
Shell	4.4 miles	16
Greybull	10.7 miles	7
Basin	14.0 miles	7
Manderson	18.8 miles	9
Otto	23.5 miles	7
Hyattville	24.0 miles	9
Emblem	28.1 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1599766. 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.