Frontier, Wyoming

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Kemmerer East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83121. The Survey maps it on the Kemmerer quadrangle. It stands 6,932 feet above sea level.

Frontier within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1954 USGS Kemmerer quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Kemmerer quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Kemmerer quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Frontier between 1992 and 2020, burning about 213 acres in total. 4 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	4
Debris and open burning	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Fireworks	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
19 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Lincoln County	OAKLY
19 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Rock Springs Field Office	COAL SEAM
1 September 2018	Debris and open burning	120 acres	Kemmerer Field Office	ASPEN SPRINGS
9 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kemmerer Field Office	POWER LINE
25 August 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Lincoln County	189 NORTH
25 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kemmerer Field Office	FRONTIER
23 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Kemmerer Field Office	MAGPIE
23 August 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	60 acres	Rock Springs Field Office	AIRPORT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Frontier: 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 (unverifiable)	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Unknown
	Unknown Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln 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
Willow Addition	1.0 miles	10
Kemmerer	1.5 miles	10
Diamondville	2.4 miles	10
Elkol	7.4 miles	11
Blazon Junction	9.0 miles	11
Fossil	9.9 miles	10
Opal	11.6 miles	9
Sage	22.3 miles	10

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 Frontier	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5505946	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 1588764. 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.