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Goose Egg, Wyoming

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Hells Half Acre census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82604. It lies near Jackson Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Goose Egg quadrangle. It stands 4,026 feet above sea level.

Goose Egg within Natrona County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

103 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Goose Egg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 18,713 acres in total. 40 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/undetermined52
Natural40
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Firearms and explosives use1
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
8 September 1998Naturalunder an acreCasper Field OfficeCOAL MTN
8 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
7 September 1998Naturalunder an acreCasper Field OfficeWEST END
25 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNatrona CountyHWY 220 FIRE
24 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCasper Field OfficeCOAL MOUNTAIN ROAD
24 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCasper Field OfficeCOTTONWOOD CREEK
23 September 2005Naturalunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
2 September 2013Naturalunder an acreCasper Field OfficeSHOOTING RANGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Natrona 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 Goose Egg: 5 prospects, 5 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Bentonite, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Uranium, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cedar Breaks #1UraniumOccurrence
Lower PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Goose Egg #2Gypsum-AnhydriteProspect
Red ButtesGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Bates Creek Area No 2BentoniteProspect
Blue Hill DepositBentoniteProspect
Cottonwood CreekBentoniteOccurrence
Goose Egg #1BentoniteOccurrence
Soap Creek #1BentoniteProducer
Southwest of CasperBentoniteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Natrona County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goose Egg in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 flash flood. 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
July 2007Flash FloodGoose Egg$5,000Heavy rain earlier in the day caused ash, mud, and debris from the Jackson Canyon Fire burn scar to cover private driveways near Goose Egg. Access to State Highway 220 was cut-off due to the debris flow.

Every storm recorded in Natrona 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
Bessemer Bend1.8 miles11
Bessemer (historical)2.5 miles11
Red Butte4.1 miles11
Red Buttes Village4.7 miles11
Paradise Valley6.0 miles11
Eadsville (historical)7.3 miles8
Vista West7.7 miles11
Mountain View8.2 miles11

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 Goose EggAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14714723The 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 1597334. 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.