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Kleenburn, Wyoming

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Sheridan West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82839. It stands on South Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Monarch quadrangle.

Kleenburn within Sheridan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Kleenburn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,812 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined28
Debris and open burning7
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2014Fireworks40 acresWyoming State ForestryMP 15.50 I-90 EAST BOUND
8 September 1998Natural210 acresCasper Field OfficeIVY
14 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
13 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
7 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.2 acresBuffalo Field OfficeTHUNDER CHILD
6 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresSheridan CountyDECKER ROAD FIRE
25 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresSheridan CountyHIGHWAY 338
18 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sheridan County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Kleenburn: 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Pumice. 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
Guernsey Stone QuarryPumiceProducer
Tongue River Stone CoStoneProducer
UnknownStoneOccurrence

Every working recorded in Sheridan County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kleenburn in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 4 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2011HailKleenburn-Estimated winds of 65-70 mph resulting in 3-4 inch Cottonwood tree limbs breaking off were also reported.
September 2021HailKleenburn-no account filed
June 2010HailKleenburn-no account filed
June 2010HailKleenburn-no account filed
July 2008Funnel CloudKleenburn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheridan 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
Monarch1.2 miles15
Acme1.5 miles11
Sheridan7.9 miles13
Ranchester8.0 miles15
Beckton12.4 miles17
Dayton13.4 miles15
Wyarno14.1 miles12
Powder Horn14.5 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 Q122540931The 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 1609111. 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.