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Hoback Junction, Wyoming

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Jackson Hole census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83001. It stands on Hoback River. The Survey maps it on the Camp Davis quadrangle.

Hoback Junction within Teton 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.

Fires near this place

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Hoback Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 114 acres in total. 33 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
Natural33
Recreation and ceremony14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Fireworks2
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestTWO-TIME
8 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestPOWERLINE
6 September 2020Smoking102 acresBridger-Teton National ForestSWINGING BRIDGE
27 September 2007Natural1.0 acresBridger-Teton National ForestSOUTH OF MARTIN WFU
23 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestDEER CREEK
15 September 2009Naturalunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestCOBURN CREEK
15 September 2001Naturalunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestPALMER CREEK
1 September 2000Naturalunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestFALLS CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Teton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Hoback Junction: 8 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Gold, Geothermal, Mercury. 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
UnnamedGeothermalUnknown
Unnamed ProspectGold, MercuryOccurrencePlacer
Hoback placer occurrenceGoldOccurrencePlacer
UnknownGoldOccurrence
Snake River Canyon OccurrencePhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence
Unidentified OccurrencePhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence1910
Unidentified OccurrencePhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence
Unidentified OccurrencePhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence
UnknownPhosphorus-PhosphatesProspect
Unknown (in Snake River Canyon)Phosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence

Every working recorded in Teton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hoback Junction in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2019: 1 flash flood, 1 debris flow. 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
August 2007Flash FloodHoback Junction$10,000no account filed
August 2019Debris FlowHoback Junction-A heavy rain and hailstorm caused a mudslide in Hoback Canyon. The mud and rockslide closed US 26/89 for several hours on the evening of July 1st.

Every storm recorded in Teton 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
Hoback4.0 miles13
South Park7.6 miles14
Rafter J Ranch8.0 miles14
Jackson11.0 miles14
Wilson14.5 miles17
Moose Wilson Road15.2 miles17
Jack Pine15.7 miles13
Teton Village19.0 miles17

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.

Wikidata item Q122551197The 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 1589592. 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.