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Kinnear, Wyoming

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1962. It stands in the Wind River Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82516. It lies in Kinnear Valley. The Survey maps it on the Pavillion quadrangle. It stands 5,400 feet above sea level.

Kinnear within Fremont County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Kinnear between 1992 and 2020, burning about 361 acres in total. 4 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
Debris and open burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking5
Fireworks5
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 1998Smokingunder an acreWind River AgencySOUTHFORK
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
17 September 2009Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWind River AgencyANTONE
8 August 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
5 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresLander Field OfficeKINNEAR
5 August 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
31 August 2005Smoking1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
28 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreWind River AgencyJOHNSTOWN VALLEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Kinnear: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
UnknownGoldProspect

Every working recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this place

10 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kinnear in 10 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 5 hail, 4 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2009HailKinnear$25,000Penny sized hail accumulated to a depth of three or four inches along U.S. Highway 26 and nearby areas. The combination of rain and accumulating hail destroyed at least 200 tons of hay in fields around Kinnear.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindKinnear$1,000Many healthy tree branches up to three inches in diameter were snapped off by strong wind at a home north of Kinnear.
June 2023FloodKinnear-Minor flooding occurred along the Wind River near Kinnear. No damage or road closures occurred. However, water was close to running over Highway 132 due to a clogged culvert.
June 2022FloodKinnear-The Wind River near Kinnear, WY peaked around 9 feet. The flooding was confined to low lying areas around the river and caused no known damage.
July 2019HailKinnear-Nickel to quarter size hail fell from near Kinnear to north of Riverton.
May 2018FloodKinnear-Fremont County emergency management reported flooding near the Wind River and Highway 132. The south lane of traffic was covered with water for a day.
May 2008HailKinnear-Penny sized hail fell just south of Ocean Lake.
June 2018FloodKinnear-no account filed
May 2005HailKinnear-no account filed
May 2000HailKinnear-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fremont 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
Johnstown2.6 miles9
Morton6.1 miles9
Pavillion6.4 miles8
Ethete10.1 miles8
Midvale13.1 miles9
Fort Washakie14.8 miles8
Wind River15.8 miles10
Arapahoe16.4 miles10

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 KinnearAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6414046The 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 1590366. 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.