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.
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.
Fort Steelelisted 1969 · 0.1 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 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.
- 1893 USGS Fort Steele quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1914 USGS Walcott quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Fort Steele quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Medicine Bow quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
14 since 1993Regional 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 maintenance | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | STEEL FIRE |
| 5 September 1993 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Rawlins Field Office | SET BRAKE |
| 29 September 2006 | Smoking | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | SAINT MARYS CREEK |
| 18 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | SHEENING PENS |
| 5 August 1994 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 60 acres | Rawlins Field Office | RR#2 |
| 2 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | SAINT MARYS |
| 5 July 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Rawlins Field Office | RAILROAD#1 |
| 4 July 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Carbon County | FORT STEELE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 14 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown Sandpit | Sand | Unknown | ||
| Fort Steele Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Ft. Steele Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Rawlins Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Rawlins Sand and Gravel B.L.M. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
1 since 2018Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2018 | Hail | Fort Steele | - | Hail produced several large dents to nearby cars. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walcott | 5.5 miles | 16 | |
| Edson | 8.6 miles | 16 | |
| Sinclair | 8.8 miles | 11 | |
| Coyote Springs | 9.3 miles | 16 | |
| Old McKeal Place | 13.1 miles | 15 | |
| Rawlins | 15.5 miles | 12 | |
| Old Haymaker Place | 17.3 miles | 15 | |
| Hanna | 21.3 miles | 17 |
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.








