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New Fork, Wyoming

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Boulder census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82923. It stands on East Fork River. The Survey maps it on the Boulder quadrangle.

New Fork within Sublette County

On record in New Fork

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of New Fork between 1995 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 July 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acrePinedale Field OfficeMILE MARKER 90
1 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
19 June 2006Natural1.5 acresPinedale Field OfficeLOVATT
21 April 2020Debris and open burning50 acresSublette CountyGRABEL
17 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.7 acresPinedale Field OfficeFISH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sublette County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of New Fork: 3 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Unknown Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Sublette County

Storms near this place

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Fork in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 1 hail, 1 flood, 1 tornado. 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
September 2024Tornado (EF0)New Fork-The Sublette County emergency manager reported a landspout east of Marbleton. The landspout remained over open country and caused no known damage.
July 2011FloodNew Fork-The New Fork River was flooded in sections around State Highway 351 and upstream near the confluence of Boulder Creek.
June 2004HailNew Fork-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sublette 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
Boulder3.2 miles10
Pinedale13.8 miles11
Big Sandy14.0 miles9
Sylvan Bay Summer Home Area17.8 miles11
Cora21.6 miles10
Daniel22.0 miles10
Daniel Junction22.8 miles10
Marbleton23.3 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1597429. 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.