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Paradise, Wyoming

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Hanna census division. The Survey maps it on the Difficulty quadrangle.

Paradise within Carbon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Paradise between 1998 and 2006, burning about 22 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
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
30 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresRawlins Field OfficeSHEEP SP
25 August 2006Naturalunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeELLIS RANCH
1 August 2001Natural7.0 acresRawlins Field OfficeBALD MTN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Paradise: 4 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, 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
The Goose EggGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence
Ajo ClaimsUraniumPast ProducerTyuyamunite
Bald KnobUraniumPast Producer
Jim ClaimsUraniumProspect
UnknownUraniumProspect
UnknownUraniumPast Producer
Western-Standard PropertyUraniumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paradise in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2017Thunderstorm WindParadise-Estimated wind gusts of 55 to 60 mph were observed northwest of Medicine Bow.

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
Shirley (historical)7.0 miles9
Oil Springs11.8 miles12
Sampo (historical)13.2 miles13
Elmo15.3 miles17
Hanna16.4 miles17
Carbon17.1 miles12
Medicine Bow18.7 miles14
Leo21.7 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1597452. 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.