Rambler, Wyoming

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Saratoga census division. It stands on Doane Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bridger Peak quadrangle. It stands 9,321 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Rambler within Carbon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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.

1932 USGS Savery quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1932 USGS Savery quadrangle1:96000
1940 USGS Savery quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Bridger Peak quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Baggs quadrangle1:100000
1983 USGS Bridger Peak quadrangle1:24000
1988 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Rambler (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1 acre in total. 3 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
Recreation and ceremony	5
Natural	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
8 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	BABY
10 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	not named
1 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	BATTLE CREEK
6 August 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	NELLIE
5 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	BATTLE LAKE
28 July 2009	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	SMITH CREEK
17 July 2002	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	DOANE
10 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	SAWDUST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Rambler (historical): 10 past producers, 10 prospects, 9 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Iron, Gold, 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	Recorded
Creede Prospect	Copper, Iron, Nickel, Cobalt	Occurrence	Magnetite, Pyrrhotite, Chalcopyrite
Doane-Rambler Mine (including Rex Mine)	Silver, Gold, Copper, Cobalt, Uranium	Past Producer	stratabound
Encampment District	Copper, Zinc, Lead, Silver, Gold	Past Producer
Ferris-Haggarty Mine	Copper, Silver, Gold, Uranium	Past Producer	1897
Gertrude	Copper, Iron, Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Island City Group Prospect	Copper, Silver, Gold, Iron	Prospect	Copper, Pyrrhotite
Portland Mine and Hercules Mine	Copper, Palladium, Platinum, Gold, Silver	Prospect	Chalcopyrite, Chalcocite, Bornite
Standard Park Area	Stone, Granite, Dimension	Occurrence
Unknown	Gemstone	Occurrence
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Battle (historical)	1.3 miles	17
Rudefeha (historical)	4.0 miles	16
Dillon (historical)	4.7 miles	16
Copperton (historical)	6.2 miles	16
Elwood (historical)	6.7 miles	17
Encampment	12.0 miles	16
Riverside	12.7 miles	16
Dexterville (historical)	13.7 miles	17

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.

Wikipedia article on Rambler (historical)	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7289206	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 1597467. 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.