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Mountain Home, Wyoming

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the South Albany census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82070. The Survey maps it on the Foxpark quadrangle. It stands 8,770 feet above sea level.

Mountain Home within Albany County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Mountain Home between 1994 and 2019, burning about 22,181 acres in total. 11 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
Natural11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

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 acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandROACH
26 September 2010Naturalunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandMILLER LAKE
21 September 2002Naturalunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandBOSWELL
2 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandCLEARCUT
18 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandGRAM
12 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandWYCOLO
28 August 2017Recreation and ceremony14 acresArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandJOHNSON CREEK
25 August 1999Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandPOWERLINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Albany 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 Mountain Home: 4 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Mica, Garnet, Tantalum, Niobium (Columbium), Beryllium. 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
American Copper MineCopper, SilverProspectMalachite, Azurite
Ione ProspectGarnet, Tantalum, Niobium (Columbium), Beryllium, Mica, FeldsparOccurrenceBeryl
Many Values Pegmatite ProspectMica, Beryllium, Tantalum, Garnet, REE, Niobium (Columbium), UraniumPast Producer1930, 1942
Muscovite ClaimMica, Tungsten, Pumice, Feldspar, GarnetPast ProducerBeryl, Columbite, Tantalite, Muscovite
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownCopperOccurrence
Unknown PitsCopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Albany 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
Wyocolo0.2 miles17
Gramm3.1 miles17
Foxpark5.0 miles17
Collins (historical)7.1 miles17
Jelm9.1 miles16
New Jelm10.0 miles16
Woods Landing11.0 miles16
Keystone11.9 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 Mountain HomeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30622161The 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 1601587. 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.