BlockOld McKeal Place, Wyoming
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Saratoga census division. It lies near McKeal Meadows. The Survey maps it on the Overland Crossing quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1893 USGS Fort Steele quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Overland Crossing quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Medicine Bow quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
3 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Old McKeal Place between 2005 and 2016, burning about 3 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 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2010 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | CR351 |
| 2 August 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | OX BOW |
| 11 April 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | SANGER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old Haymaker Place | 5.6 miles | 15 | |
| Saratoga | 12.3 miles | 13 | |
| Fort Steele | 13.1 miles | 15 | |
| Walcott | 13.4 miles | 16 | |
| Sinclair | 15.2 miles | 11 | |
| Coyote Springs | 16.7 miles | 16 | |
| Edson | 17.9 miles | 16 | |
| Rawlins | 20.4 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 Q122550839 | 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 1597442. 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.