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Oil Springs, Wyoming

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Hanna census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82329. The Survey maps it on the Como East quadrangle.

Oil Springs within Carbon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Oil Springs between 2001 and 2017, burning about 6 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/undetermined1
Natural1

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
24 August 2017Natural6.0 acresRawlins Field OfficeFREEZEOUT MOUNTAIN
21 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeMP36

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Oil Springs: 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Flattop Anticline AreaGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence
Freezeout-Seminoe AreaGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence
UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oil Springs in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2024: 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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 2024HailOil Springs-A storm chaser reported half dollar sized hail 9 miles N of Medicine Bow.
July 2014Flash FloodOil Springs-Two to three inches of rain in three hours caused flash flooding about five miles east and northeast of Battle Mountain with a few dirt roads washed out.

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
Medicine Bow7.4 miles14
Carbon11.4 miles12
Paradise11.8 miles9
Sampo (historical)13.4 miles13
Elmo16.2 miles17
Hanna17.7 miles17
Shirley (historical)17.8 miles9
Old Brooks Place21.4 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1592370. 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.