Jays Roost, Wyoming
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Saratoga census division. The Survey maps it on the Keystone quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1906 USGS Medicine Bow quadrangle1:125000
- 1908 USGS Medicine Bow quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Keystone quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Saratoga quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
- 1992 USGS Keystone quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Jays Roost between 1995 and 2020, burning about 179,408 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | RAMBLING BEAR |
| 3 September 2003 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | COTTONWOOD |
| 27 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Uinta County | WILSON FIRE |
| 17 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 176,878 acres | Arapaho National Wildlife Refuge | MULLEN |
| 13 September 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | ROB ROY |
| 13 September 2005 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | POWERLINE |
| 14 August 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | NO CAT |
| 8 July 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | BOBBIE THOMPSON/28 |
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 29 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Jays Roost: 19 past producers, 6 prospects, 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Gold, Copper, Cobalt. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ak-Sar-Ben Group | Manganese, Iron | Prospect | ||
| Albany Mine | Copper, Gold | Past Producer | 1903 | |
| Blanche Mine | Copper, Platinum, Palladium, Gold | Past Producer | hydrothermal vein | |
| Douglas Creek Placer Mining District | Gold, Palladium, Tungsten, Silver, Platinum | Past Producer | 1868 | |
| Duchess Mine | Copper, Gold, Platinum | Prospect | Hematite, Limonite, Pyrite, Tetrahedrite | |
| Gold Crater Mine | Gold, Copper, Cobalt, Sulfur-Pyrite | Past Producer | 1937 | |
| Independence Mine | Gold, Copper, Bismuth | Prospect | Bismuth, Chalcanthite, Chalcopyrite | |
| Moore's Gulch | Gold, Platinum, Palladium | Past Producer | 1868 | |
| Morning Star Claim | Gold, Copper, Platinum | Occurrence | ||
| New Rambler Mine | Copper, Palladium, Platinum, Gold, Silver, Nickel | Past Producer | 1877, 1900, 1918 |
Storms near this place
2 since 2022Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jays Roost in 2 storm reports in 2022: 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2022 | Flash Flood | Jays Roost | - | Radar estimates of up to 2 inches of rainfall fell over a severely burned area of the Mullen Fire Burn Scar west and south of Rob Roy Reservoir. Evidence of debris flow with ash at A Bar A Ranch on the Mullen Creek. |
| August 2022 | Flash Flood | Jays Roost | - | Mullen Creek, Savage Run, and Cottonwood Creek all flooded with the Mullen Creek rising 3 feet near the confluence with the North Platte River near A Bar A Ranch. Heavy rain was reported higher upstream over the Mullen Fire Burn Scar Area with 1 hour rainfall accumulation near 1 inch. A Bar A Ranch measured 0.58 inches of rainfall. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan Park | 14.2 miles | 16 | |
| Tenmile | 16.7 miles | 16 | |
| Riverside | 24.0 miles | 16 | |
| Morrisey (historical) | 24.2 miles | 17 | |
| Encampment | 24.5 miles | 16 | |
| Woodedge | 26.1 miles | 13 | |
| Elwood (historical) | 29.3 miles | 17 | |
| Arlington | 30.2 miles | 13 |
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 Q122555388 | 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 1600593. 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.









