J O Junction, Wyoming

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Wamsutter census division. The Survey maps it on the Table Rock quadrangle.

J O Junction within Sweetwater County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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 Rock Springs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Rock Springs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Rock Springs quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Table Rock quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Red Desert Basin quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of J O Junction between 1998 and 2020, burning about 5 acres in total. 1 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	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
4 August 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Rock Springs Field Office	ADOBE
2 August 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Rawlins Field Office	RR 2
17 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Rock Springs Field Office	RED WASH
12 August 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Rawlins Field Office	TABLE ROCK
9 July 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.5 acres	Rawlins Field Office	TABLE ROCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sweetwater 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
Table Rock	5.4 miles	7
Monell	6.2 miles	7
Robinson	7.2 miles	7
Fort LaClede (historical)	8.3 miles	6
Bitter Creek	8.8 miles	7
Tipton	9.3 miles	7
Red Desert	16.5 miles	8
Point of Rocks	23.2 miles	8

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 Q122553326

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 1597363. 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.