Nickelson Place, Wyoming

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Thermopolis East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82443. It stands on Antelope Creek. The Survey maps it on the Devil Slide quadrangle.

Nickelson Place within Hot Springs County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1955 USGS Thermopolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Thermopolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Devil Slide quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Thermopolis quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Thermopolis quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Nickelson Place between 2004 and 2012, burning about 4,030 acres in total. 2 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
Natural	2
Debris and open burning	1

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
22 September 2007	Debris and open burning	3,978 acres	Worland Field Office	COPPER MTN
6 August 2004	Natural	52 acres	Worland Field Office	WOODS BSN
13 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Worland Field Office	WOODS BASIN

Every fire recorded in Hot Springs 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Minnesela	9.3 miles	8
East Thermopolis	10.8 miles	8
Thermopolis	11.3 miles	8
Red Lane	12.7 miles	8
Lucerne	15.2 miles	8
Kirby	19.7 miles	10
Owl Creek	32.0 miles	12
Hamilton Dome	32.1 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.

Wikidata item Q122544153

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 1597431. 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.