Muddy Gap, Wyoming
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Rawlins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82301. It stands on Big Camp Creek. The Survey maps it on the Muddy Gap quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Casper quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Casper quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Casper quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Muddy Gap quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Bairoil quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Casper quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
14 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Muddy Gap between 1996 and 2019, burning about 25 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.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | MUDDY GAP |
| 6 August 2000 | Smoking | 17 acres | Rawlins Field Office | MUDDY |
| 4 August 2001 | Natural | 1.2 acres | Rawlins Field Office | WHISKEY |
| 25 August 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | BLACK CANYON |
| 19 August 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Rawlins Field Office | WINABAGO |
| 1 August 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | WHISKET FIRE |
| 31 July 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.3 acres | Lander Field Office | 789 MP3 |
| 25 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | MILE MARKER 43 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Muddy Gap: 3 prospects, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Limestone, Dimension, Bentonite, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ferris Mountains (bentonite occurrence) | Bentonite | Prospect | ||
| Unknown | Limestone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| County Line Claims | Uranium | Prospect | ||
| Jenie Claim #1 | Uranium | Prospect |
Storms near this place
2 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Muddy Gap in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2023: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Three Forks | 1.0 miles | 8 | |
| Lamont | 9.1 miles | 8 | |
| Marvin Place (historical) | 16.7 miles | 10 | |
| Ferris (historical) | 18.2 miles | 10 | |
| McCargar Place | 20.1 miles | 10 | |
| Seminoe Dam | 31.8 miles | 10 | |
| Leo | 35.4 miles | 9 | |
| Rawlins | 40.4 miles | 12 |
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 Muddy Gap | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18378003 | The 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 1591881. 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.





