Gibson, Wyoming

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Wheatland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82201. It lies near Ayers Draw. The Survey maps it on the Wheatland quadrangle.

Gibson within Platte County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1896 USGS Hartville quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Hartville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1951 USGS Wheatland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Torrington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Torrington quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Torrington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Wheatland quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

90 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Gibson between 2001 and 2020, burning about 3,029 acres in total. 5 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
Debris and open burning	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Fireworks	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Natural	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
21 September 2018	Smoking	1.0 acres	Platte County	312 FIRE
19 September 2005	Railroad operations and maintenance	4.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
16 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	120 acres	Platte County	HWY 34
16 September 2018	Fireworks	under an acre	Platte County	FESTO LAKE FIRE
10 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
10 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
10 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
8 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Platte County	OLSON & AYERS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Platte County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Gibson: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Basins Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Platte 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
Whiting	0.5 miles	13
Y-O Ranch	1.3 miles	13
Wheatland	2.5 miles	13
Chugcreek	2.9 miles	13
Ferguson Corner	4.3 miles	8
Sibylee	4.3 miles	13
Curtis	4.9 miles	13
Westview Circle	6.5 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1597330. 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.