Parkerton, Wyoming

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Glenrock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82637. The Survey maps it on the Parkerton quadrangle.

Parkerton within Converse County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1949 USGS Parkerton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Parkerton quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Torrington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Torrington quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Parkerton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 991 acres in total. 18 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	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.3 acres	Casper Field Office	MILE MARKER 172
3 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	249 acres	Casper Field Office	HORSE PASTURE
10 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.9 acres	Casper Field Office	PARKERTON
8 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Casper Field Office	BIG MUDDY POND
5 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Converse County	172A
5 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Casper Field Office	BIG MUDDY
30 August 2015	Natural	5.0 acres	Casper Field Office	BANNER RANCH
30 August 2011	Natural	150 acres	Casper Field Office	STATE 7

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Converse 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 Parkerton: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Open Pit Sections 28 and 33	Uranium	Producer
Thatcher and Sons Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Valentine Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Converse 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
Glenrock	5.4 miles	9
Rolling Hills	7.7 miles	9
Clayton	11.7 miles	9
Boxelder	17.4 miles	9
Buck Place	19.3 miles	10
Birkner Hill	22.7 miles	8
Leahy Place	23.8 miles	10
Orpha	24.9 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1597453. 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.