Merna, Wyoming

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Pinedale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83115. The Survey maps it on the Merna quadrangle.

Merna within Sublette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

1939 USGS Big Piney quadrangle1:125000
1942 USGS Big Piney quadrangle1:125000
1955 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Merna quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Afton quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Merna between 1996 and 2019, burning about 26 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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
Natural	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Sublette County	MERNA COTTONWOOD
21 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Bridger-Teton National Forest	NORTH HORSE
5 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17 acres	Pinedale Field Office	ELK HORN
27 May 2007	Natural	3.0 acres	Bridger-Teton National Forest	MEMORIAL
1 October 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
11 January 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Bridger-Teton National Forest	BUCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sublette County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Merna in 1 storm report in 2016: 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
September 2016	Funnel Cloud	Merna	-	A funnel cloud north of Merna heading north toward The Rim was photographed by several people over the course of 15 minutes.

Every storm recorded in Sublette 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
Halfway	9.5 miles	10
Bronx	12.3 miles	10
Daniel Junction	14.9 miles	10
Daniel	15.4 miles	10
Bondurant	18.1 miles	13
Cora	19.1 miles	10
Pinedale	26.0 miles	11
Sylvan Bay Summer Home Area	29.5 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1597629. 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.