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McKinnon, Wyoming

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Green River South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82938. The Survey maps it on the McKinnon quadrangle. 20 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,057 feet above sea level.

McKinnon within Sweetwater County

On record in McKinnon

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

McKinnon fell from 60 to 20 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201060
202020-40 (-67%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

17 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of McKinnon between 2001 and 2018, burning about 53 acres in total. 13 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
Natural13
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
6 September 2006Naturalunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficePHIL PICO
5 September 2001Naturalunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeCEDAR MTN
19 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeBIRCH CREEK
27 August 2007Naturalunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeANDERSON CREEK
13 August 2007Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPHIL PICO 2
23 July 2012Naturalunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeEAST CANYON
21 July 2010Naturalunder an acreKemmerer Field OfficeMM 137
19 July 2007Naturalunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeTHAYER JCT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sweetwater County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of McKinnon: 4 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
IndianUraniumUnknown
Paintpot ClaimsUraniumProspect
Spirit, Uinta, Indian, PaintpotUraniumOccurrence
Birch Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Birch Creek Gravel Pit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Birch Creek Gravel Pit 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
State Highway DeptSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Sweetwater 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
Rendezvous2.0 miles9
Burntfork3.6 miles8
Washam8.9 miles9
Squaw Hollow (historical)22.0 miles10
Granger Junction35.8 miles8
Little America35.8 miles8
Greenhough Place36.8 miles10
Granger39.1 miles8

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 McKinnonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1306849The 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 1591358. 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.