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Moran, Wyoming

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Jackson Hole census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83013. It stands on Buffalo Fork. The Survey maps it on the Moran quadrangle. It stands 6,749 feet above sea level.

Moran within Teton County

On record in Moran

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 3 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

67 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Moran between 1992 and 2020, burning about 206 acres in total. 41 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
Natural41
Recreation and ceremony8
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1

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 1994Naturalunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkLUCKY
6 September 2007Natural9.0 acresGrand Teton National ParkMATILDA
4 September 2016Naturalunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkLOZIER HILL
21 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkELK RANCH
13 September 2001Naturalunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkCHIEF
12 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkPCHUNTCAMP
11 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkDWYER
10 September 2005Naturalunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkLOZIER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Teton County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Moran: 3 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Gold, Uranium, Copper. 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
Buffalo Fork ProspectCopperOccurrence
Cowboy LodeUraniumOccurrence
UnknownPumiceProspect
UnknownGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Teton County

Storms near this place

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moran in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2022: 4 hail, 2 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death and 6 injuries. 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
August 2022LightningMoran1 killed, 1 hurtOn Tuesday evening, August 2, 2022 lightning struck a group of backpackers camped at Enos Lake in the Teton Wilderness. One person, a 22-year-old male, died in the incident, while another, an adult male, sustained major injuries. The lightning bolt reportedly hit the backpackers at camp. The men were part of a group of 14 adults on an organized wilderness trip. This information is directly from a Teton County Search and Rescue press release describing the event.
June 2002LightningMoran5 hurtno account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMoran$15,000A collapsing thunderstorm produced damaging outflow wind. Several large trees and power poles were blown down, especially in the area of Colter Bay and Pilgrim Creek in Grand Teton National Park. Several interior service roads in the park were temporarily blocked by downed trees. Large plate-glass windows were blown out in the Mural Room of Jackson Lake Lodge but no injuries were reported.
August 2009HailMoran-Hail to the size of nickels was reported at Signal Mountain Lodge.
August 2009HailMoran-Nickel sized hail and wind gusts approaching 50 mph were reported at the Signal Mountain Marina.
July 2002HailMoran-no account filed
July 2002HailMoran-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
Elk4.3 miles16
Colter Bay Village8.3 miles15
Grovont15.9 miles15
Beaver Creek16.1 miles15
Kelly16.3 miles15
Moose17.0 miles15
Teton Village24.4 miles17
Moose Wilson Road28.2 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 MoranAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q539945The 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 1604433. 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.