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Natwick, Wyoming

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Wheatland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82201. The Survey maps it on the Natwick quadrangle.

Natwick within Platte County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

29 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Natwick between 1996 and 2020, burning about 45 acres in total. 7 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
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

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
21 September 2005Natural3.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
19 September 2005Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
10 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
10 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
10 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
8 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresPlatte CountyTWO BAR RANCH
8 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresPlatte CountyOLSON & AYERS
23 August 2017Natural7.0 acresMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandMIDDLETON FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Platte 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 Natwick: 2 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Vermiculite, Graphite. 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
Texan LodeGraphiteProspect
Coony Hill ProspectGoldOccurrence
UnknownVermiculiteProducer
UnknownVermiculiteOccurrence
Whippoorwill ClaimGoldProspect

Every working recorded in Platte County

Storms near this place

11 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Natwick in 11 storm reports between 2019 and 2023: 9 hail, 2 flash flood. 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
June 2023HailNatwick-A trained spotter located 7 miles SW of Wheatland reported quarter sized hail.
June 2023HailNatwick-The public reported quarter sized hail near Wheatland Reservoir Number 1.
May 2023HailNatwick-A trained weather spotter located 8 miles SW of Wheatland reported quarter sized hail.
June 2023HailNatwick-Ping-pong ball sized hail was reported by a storm chaser approximately 21 miles SW of Wheatland.
June 2023HailNatwick-Ping-pong ball sized hail was reported by a storm chaser approximately 21 miles SW of Wheatland.
August 2019Flash FloodNatwick-Water from area streams and creeks were out of their respective banks in addition to accumulating hail producing rushing water along Road 34 and nearby pasture lands.
August 2019Flash FloodNatwick-Highway 34 was flooded between Deadhead Creek Road and mile marker 43.
July 2021HailNatwick-no account filed
August 2019HailNatwick-no account filed
August 2019HailNatwick-no account filed
August 2019HailNatwick-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Platte 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
Ferguson Corner3.9 miles8
Whiting6.2 miles13
Gibson6.6 miles13
Westview Circle7.1 miles9
Y-O Ranch7.8 miles13
Wheatland8.5 miles13
Chugcreek9.5 miles13
Sibylee10.0 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q122565405The 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 1597427. 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.