Linden, Wyoming

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Moorcroft census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82730. It stands on Little Houston Creek. The Survey maps it on the Linden quadrangle.

Linden within Crook County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1918 USGS Moorcroft quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Gillette quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Gillette quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Nefsy Divide quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gillette quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Gillette quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Sundance quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Linden quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Linden between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,557 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/undetermined	7
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	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
17 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
23 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	DEADMAN
18 August 2000	Natural	2,000 acres	Casper Field Office	A HAGERMAN
7 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	DEADMAN
3 July 2012	Natural	1,506 acres	New Castle Field Office	GHOST
27 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
1 July 2020	Natural	under an acre	Crook County	OLD SUNDANCE TREE
29 June 2020	Natural	2.5 acres	Crook County	AYER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Pine Haven

Every fire recorded in Crook 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 Linden: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
	Gose Ranch Property	Uranium	Prospect

Every working recorded in Crook 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Pine Haven	11.6 miles	14
Sundance	13.1 miles	16
Carlile Junction	13.4 miles	13
Carlile	15.8 miles	15
Moorcroft	19.2 miles	14
Devils Tower	19.3 miles	13
Moskee	22.4 miles	17
Willow Springs	24.3 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1597383. 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.