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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.

Keystone within Albany County

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.

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

34 since 1994

Regional 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
Natural12
Recreation and ceremony9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandBIRD
3 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandROAD 305
28 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grasslandnot named
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
13 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grasslandnot named
8 August 1994Naturalunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grasslandnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Albany County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 42 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Albany MineCopper, GoldPast Producer1903
Blanche MineCopper, Platinum, Palladium, GoldPast Producerhydrothermal vein
Cuprite MineSilver, Gold, Copper, Cobalt, ChromiumPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Copper, Cuprite, Gold, Pyrite, Silver
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
Lake CreekIronPast Producer
Lake Creek MinesCopper, Gold, Silver, Rhodium, Palladium, PlatinumPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Pyrite
Moore's GulchGold, Platinum, PalladiumPast Producer1868

Every working recorded in Albany County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2022Flash FloodKeystone-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 2021Flash FloodKeystone-Received video from Wyoming Game and Fish Biologist of flash flooding along Lake Creek in the Mullen Burn Scar.

Every storm recorded in Albany 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
Collins (historical)6.5 miles17
Albany6.8 miles14
Deerwood8.2 miles14
Foxpark8.3 miles17
Centennial10.9 miles17
Gramm11.3 miles17
Mountain Home11.9 miles17
Wyocolo12.2 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.

Wikipedia article on KeystoneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30622149The 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.