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Pahaska Tepee, Wyoming

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Cody census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82414. It stands on Middle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pahaska Tepee quadrangle.

Pahaska Tepee within Park County

On record in Pahaska Tepee

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

9 surveys from 19 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

26 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Pahaska Tepee between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,859 acres in total. 11 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
Natural11
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Other causes1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
28 September 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreShoshone National ForestEAST
22 September 2009Natural326 acresShoshone National ForestCASTLE
8 August 2003Natural6.0 acresShoshone National ForestCODY PEAK
8 August 2003Naturalunder an acreShoshone National ForestCASTLE
27 August 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreShoshone National ForestPAHASKA
26 August 2003Naturalunder an acreShoshone National ForestCANFIELD
2 August 2005Naturalunder an acreYellowstone National ParkCODY PEAK
18 August 2010Natural200 acresYellowstone National ParkARTHUR 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Park County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pahaska Tepee in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 wildfire. 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
August 2022Flash FloodPahaska Tepee$20,000A tributary of Kitty Creek rose out of its banks and pushed mud and debris from the higher elevations onto local roads and a cabin area south of US Hwy 14 (North Fork Highway). A WYDOT official reported mud and debris were 3 feet deep in some locations just upstream along US Hwy 14. Many people were stranded in the area as local roads and the highway were impassable. A car was totaled when the driver attempted to drive through the flooded road. A private cabin was also damaged by the flooding. Hwy 14 was closed over the next 12 hours, opening back up the following morning.
August 2007Flash FloodPahaska Tepee$5,000no account filed
July 2014Flash FloodPahaska Tepee-Two rounds of rain totaling one-half inch to one inch in less than one hour produced a series of mud and rock slides across US Highway 14/16/20 near the east gate of Yellowstone National Park. The largest slide was about 100 feet wide and ranged from three to six feet in depth. Several smaller slides along the highway were spread across an area one to two miles wide centered around milepost 7.5. Mud, rocks, logs, and other debris clogged one box culvert and covered the road within this stretch of highway. The road was closed for about eight hours as Wyoming Department of Transportation crews cleared the debris. The slides occurred during the height of the tourist season and the temporary road closure stranded hundreds of motorists on both sides of the blockage.
July 2014HailPahaska Tepee-Hail up to the size of nickels fell at Pahaska.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindPahaska Tepee-A strong thunderstorm produced a 58 mph wind gust at a remote observing station.
June 2007HailPahaska Tepee-no account filed
July 2003WildfirePahaska Tepee-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindPahaska Tepee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Park 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
Soda Butte (historical)27.8 miles21
Wapiti27.9 miles12
Hawkeye30.6 miles16
Canyon Village32.2 miles22
Canyon Junction32.4 miles22
Bannock Ford34.7 miles24
Buffalo Ford36.5 miles24
Tower Junction37.3 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1603517. 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.

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.