BlockLost Cabin, Wyoming
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Shoshoni census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82642. It stands on South Fork Badwater Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lysite quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1952 USGS Lysite quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Arminto quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Arminto quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Arminto quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Lysite quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
3 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Lost Cabin between 1992 and 2013, burning about 101 acres in total. None 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 | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 6 November 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 3 October 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lost Cabin in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2015: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Flood | Lost Cabin | $25,000 | Flood waters from Elkhorn Creek damaged Strube Loop Road and inundated neighboring areas to a depth of two feet across a 30-foot wide swath. Some buildings at the Lion's Camp on Casper Mountain sustained damage. During the afternoon, Elkhorn Creek was reported to be 50 yards wide and two feet deep in spots. The creek eventually flooded portions of two fairways at Casper Country Club as the waterway emptied down the north-face of Casper Mountain. |
| June 2015 | Funnel Cloud | Lost Cabin | - | A funnel cloud was observed and photographed east of Lost Cabin. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lost Cabin | - | A 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was recorded at the Lost Cabin Gas Plant six miles east of Lysite. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lysite | 3.3 miles | 7 | |
| Madden | 8.2 miles | 6 | |
| Moneta | 9.9 miles | 7 | |
| Snyder Place | 10.0 miles | 8 | |
| Bonneville | 23.4 miles | 9 | |
| Shoshoni | 25.6 miles | 7 | |
| Boysen | 30.6 miles | 8 | |
| Midvale | 43.3 miles | 9 |
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 Lost Cabin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q28153517 | 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 1591015. 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.
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.