Hazelton, Wyoming

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Buffalo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82834. It stands on Basco Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hazelton quadrangle.

Hazelton within Johnson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

1900 USGS Fort McKinney quadrangle1:125000
1903 USGS Fort McKinney quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Hazelton quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Hazelton quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Hazelton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. 8 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
Recreation and ceremony	13
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Bighorn National Forest	CARIBOU
16 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Bighorn National Forest	SHEEP
5 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Bighorn National Forest	HESSE CREEK
4 August 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Bighorn National Forest	DOYLE 1
26 August 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Bighorn National Forest	LOST CABIN #4
24 August 2006	Natural	1.0 acres	Bighorn National Forest	TAYLOR
24 August 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Bighorn National Forest	JERSEY
22 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Bighorn National Forest	POLE CREEK

Every fire recorded in Johnson 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 Hazelton: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. 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	Uranium	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Johnson 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
Mayoworth	20.5 miles	6
Buffalo	22.5 miles	12
Saddlestring	25.0 miles	13
Barnum	30.0 miles	7
Kearny	31.1 miles	13
Kaycee	31.9 miles	6
Linstead Place	42.6 miles	6
Sussex	45.1 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1600266. 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.