Morrisey, Wyoming

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.

• 1906 USGS Medicine Bow quadrangle1:125000
• 1908 USGS Medicine Bow quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Morgan quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1962 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
• 1982 USGS Saratoga quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
• 1992 USGS Morgan quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Morrisey (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 97 acres in total. 4 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Woodedge
• Elk Mountain
• Encampment
• Milo
• Oil Springs
• Old Brooks Place

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Morrisey (historical): 7 prospects, 5 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Marble, Dimension, Copper, Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Carbon County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1601558. 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.