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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.

Muddy Gap within Carbon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

14 since 1996

Regional 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 use5
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking2

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 August 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeMUDDY GAP
6 August 2000Smoking17 acresRawlins Field OfficeMUDDY
4 August 2001Natural1.2 acresRawlins Field OfficeWHISKEY
25 August 2006Naturalunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeBLACK CANYON
19 August 2000Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresRawlins Field OfficeWINABAGO
1 August 2018Naturalunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeWHISKET FIRE
31 July 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.3 acresLander Field Office789 MP3
25 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeMILE MARKER 43

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ferris Mountains (bentonite occurrence)BentoniteProspect
UnknownLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
County Line ClaimsUraniumProspect
Jenie Claim #1UraniumProspect

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2023Thunderstorm WindMuddy Gap-Camp Creek RAWS mesonet station reported maximum wind gust.
June 2016HailMuddy Gap-Golf ball size hail was reported at Muddy Gap.

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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
Three Forks1.0 miles8
Lamont9.1 miles8
Marvin Place (historical)16.7 miles10
Ferris (historical)18.2 miles10
McCargar Place20.1 miles10
Seminoe Dam31.8 miles10
Leo35.4 miles9
Rawlins40.4 miles12

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 GapAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18378003The 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.