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Fort Steele, Wyoming

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Rawlins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82334. It stands on Saint Marys Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Steele quadrangle.

Fort Steele within Carbon County

On record in Fort Steele

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

14 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Fort Steele between 1993 and 2020, burning about 89 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
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
6 September 2009Naturalunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeSTEEL FIRE
5 September 1993Natural3.0 acresRawlins Field OfficeSET BRAKE
29 September 2006Smokingunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeSAINT MARYS CREEK
18 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWyoming State ForestrySHEENING PENS
5 August 1994Railroad operations and maintenance60 acresRawlins Field OfficeRR#2
2 August 2011Naturalunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeSAINT MARYS
5 July 1997Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresRawlins Field OfficeRAILROAD#1
4 July 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCarbon CountyFORT STEELE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Fort Steele: 10 unknowns, 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand. 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
Unknown SandpitSandUnknown
Fort Steele PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ft. Steele PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rawlins Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rawlins Sand and Gravel B.L.M. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Steele in 1 storm report in 2018: 1 hail. 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
May 2018HailFort Steele-Hail produced several large dents to nearby cars.

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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
Walcott5.5 miles16
Edson8.6 miles16
Sinclair8.8 miles11
Coyote Springs9.3 miles16
Old McKeal Place13.1 miles15
Rawlins15.5 miles12
Old Haymaker Place17.3 miles15
Hanna21.3 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1597319. 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.

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.