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Moose, Wyoming

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Jackson Hole census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83012. It stands on Ditch Creek. The Survey maps it on the Moose quadrangle.

Moose within Teton County

On record in Moose

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 12 of 33 shown

Every listing in Teton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Moose between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,123 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 2 were 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
Natural39
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks1
Debris and open burning1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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 1998Arson/incendiarism340 acresGrand Teton National ParkHAYFIELDS
6 September 2013Naturalunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkPRONGHORN
21 September 2003Natural1.0 acresGrand Teton National ParkW. TAGGART
15 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkCAR
14 September 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkPOWERLINE
9 August 2001Naturalunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkSCIENCE SC
6 August 2016Naturalunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkAIRPORT
30 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkGARTH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Teton 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 Moose: 1 occurrence. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kelly Slide AreaUraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Teton County

Storms near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moose in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2007LightningMoose1 hurtno account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMoose$10,000Several trees were downed in a swath from the Death Canyon Trailhead east across the Moose-Wilson Road. Motorists were trapped on the road by fallen trees which were blocking passage. One vehicle was damaged near Death Canyon due to a fallen tree.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMoose-A 60 mph wind gust was reported at the weather station at the Teton Saddle.
July 2013HailMoose-Nickel sized hail was seen at Moose by a trained spotter.
August 2003WildfireMoose-no account filed
July 2002HailMoose-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Teton 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
Beaver Creek2.3 miles15
Grovont3.0 miles15
Kelly5.5 miles15
Teton Village7.5 miles17
Moose Wilson Road11.2 miles17
Jackson12.4 miles14
Elk12.8 miles16
Wilson13.5 miles17

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 MooseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3323618The 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 1591745. 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.