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Red Buttes Village, Wyoming

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Hells Half Acre census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82604. It lies near Webb Draw. The Survey maps it on the Goose Egg quadrangle.

Red Buttes Village within Natrona County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

149 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Red Buttes Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,716 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 3 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined80
Natural30
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Fireworks5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony1
Firearms and explosives use1

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
7 September 1998Naturalunder an acreCasper Field OfficeWEST END
4 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCasper Field OfficeCY FIRE
23 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
23 September 2005Naturalunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
18 September 2018Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresNatrona County108 7TH AVE FIRE
17 September 2019Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNatrona County71 CONSTRUCTION
16 September 2019Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresNatrona CountyWILDLAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Natrona County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Red Buttes Village: 3 prospects, 3 producers, 2 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Bentonite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Boels-Rimrock PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Midwest-Thoeming & WakemClayProducer
Blue Hill DepositBentoniteProspect
Goose Egg #1BentoniteOccurrence
Soap Creek #1BentoniteProducer
UnknownBentoniteProspect
UnknownBentoniteProspect
UnknownBentoniteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Natrona County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Red Buttes Village in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2017: 3 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2017Flash FloodRed Buttes Village-The Natrona County emergency manager reported heavy thunderstorm rain, causing Webb Creek to overflow on Webb Creek Road on the evening of June 5th.
May 2008HailRed Buttes Village-A trained spotter reported nickel sized hail on State Highway 220 near Red Buttes Village.
May 2008HailRed Buttes Village-Emergency management officials observed 1.50 inch diameter hail southwest of Casper.
May 2008HailRed Buttes Village-Golf ball sized hail fell along Wyoming Boulevard on the south side of Casper for nearly 15 minutes.

Every storm recorded in Natrona 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
Red Butte0.7 miles11
Paradise Valley1.4 miles11
Mountain View3.6 miles11
Mills3.7 miles11
Vista West4.1 miles11
Midwest Heights4.5 miles11
Goose Egg4.7 miles11
Air Base Acres5.2 miles11

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 Q122570694The 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 1593247. 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.