Keystone, Wyoming
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the South Albany census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82070. It stands on Little Beaver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Keystone quadrangle.
On record in Keystone
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Keystone Work Centerlisted 1994 · 0.5 miles away
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
34 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Keystone between 1994 and 2018, burning about 2,535 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 2 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
| 7 September 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | BIRD |
| 3 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | ROAD 305 |
| 28 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | not named |
| 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 |
| 13 September 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | not named |
| 8 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 42 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of Keystone: 25 past producers, 9 prospects, 4 occurrences, 3 unknowns. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Gold, Copper, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albany Mine | Copper, Gold | Past Producer | 1903 | |
| Blanche Mine | Copper, Platinum, Palladium, Gold | Past Producer | hydrothermal vein | |
| Cuprite Mine | Silver, Gold, Copper, Cobalt, Chromium | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Copper, Cuprite, Gold, Pyrite, Silver | |
| 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 | |
| Lake Creek | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Lake Creek Mines | Copper, Gold, Silver, Rhodium, Palladium, Platinum | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Pyrite | |
| Moore's Gulch | Gold, Platinum, Palladium | Past Producer | 1868 |
Storms near this place
2 since 2021Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Keystone in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2022 | Flash Flood | Keystone | - | Post-event survey revealed evidence of 2-3 foot water flows and washed out ATV trails west and southwest of Albany. The USFS was in the process of grading several dirt roads to repair small washouts and erosion spots, especially on Forest Roads 500 and 527. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Keystone | - | Received video from Wyoming Game and Fish Biologist of flash flooding along Lake Creek in the Mullen Burn Scar. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collins (historical) | 6.5 miles | 17 | |
| Albany | 6.8 miles | 14 | |
| Deerwood | 8.2 miles | 14 | |
| Foxpark | 8.3 miles | 17 | |
| Centennial | 10.9 miles | 17 | |
| Gramm | 11.3 miles | 17 | |
| Mountain Home | 11.9 miles | 17 | |
| Wyocolo | 12.2 miles | 17 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Keystone | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q30622149 | 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 1600709. 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.









