Petes Place, Wyoming

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Rock Springs South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82901. It lies near Pine Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Red Creek Ranch quadrangle.

Petes Place within Sweetwater 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.

1954 USGS Rock Springs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Rock Springs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Rock Springs quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Red Creek Ranch quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Firehole Canyon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Petes Place between 1992 and 2019, burning about 5,770 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 1 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	11
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
3 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	4,116 acres	Vernal Field Office	BENDER MOUNTAIN
25 August 1997	Natural	40 acres	Rock Springs Field Office	LA FONTE
24 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Rock Springs Field Office	TROUGH
14 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Vernal Field Office	MINI
14 August 2006	Natural	14 acres	Rock Springs Field Office	PINE MOUNTAIN
10 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Rock Springs Field Office	RED
10 August 2003	Natural	540 acres	Rock Springs Field Office	FOUR RIM
10 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Rock Springs Field Office	LITTLE CR

Every fire recorded in Sweetwater 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 Petes Place: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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	Recorded
Galloway Creek Prospects	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Kleins Hill Prospect	Barium-Barite	Occurrence	Replacement
Kleins Hill Prospect	Barium-Barite	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Sweetwater 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
Greenhough Place	12.7 miles	10
South Baxter	25.7 miles	9
Squaw Hollow (historical)	30.5 miles	10
Sweeney Ranch	32.9 miles	9
Arrowhead Springs	35.5 miles	13
Quealy	38.4 miles	13
Washam	39.5 miles	9
Blairtown	40.9 miles	13

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 Q122566937

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 1597457. 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.