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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.

Jays Roost within Carbon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

13 since 1995

Regional 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/undetermined6
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony2
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
8 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandRAMBLING BEAR
3 September 2003Natural1.0 acresMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandCOTTONWOOD
27 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUinta CountyWILSON FIRE
17 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined176,878 acresArapaho National Wildlife RefugeMULLEN
13 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandROB ROY
13 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandPOWERLINE
14 August 1995Naturalunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandNO CAT
8 July 2003Naturalunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandBOBBIE THOMPSON/28

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ak-Sar-Ben GroupManganese, IronProspect
Albany MineCopper, GoldPast Producer1903
Blanche MineCopper, Platinum, Palladium, GoldPast Producerhydrothermal vein
Douglas Creek Placer Mining DistrictGold, Palladium, Tungsten, Silver, PlatinumPast Producer1868
Duchess MineCopper, Gold, PlatinumProspectHematite, Limonite, Pyrite, Tetrahedrite
Gold Crater MineGold, Copper, Cobalt, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer1937
Independence MineGold, Copper, BismuthProspectBismuth, Chalcanthite, Chalcopyrite
Moore's GulchGold, Platinum, PalladiumPast Producer1868
Morning Star ClaimGold, Copper, PlatinumOccurrence
New Rambler MineCopper, Palladium, Platinum, Gold, Silver, NickelPast Producer1877, 1900, 1918

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this place

2 since 2022

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2022Flash FloodJays 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 2022Flash FloodJays 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.

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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
Ryan Park14.2 miles16
Tenmile16.7 miles16
Riverside24.0 miles16
Morrisey (historical)24.2 miles17
Encampment24.5 miles16
Woodedge26.1 miles13
Elwood (historical)29.3 miles17
Arlington30.2 miles13

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 Q122555388The 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.