Rendezvous, Wyoming

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Green River South census division. It stands on Birch Creek. The Survey maps it on the McKinnon quadrangle.

Rendezvous 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
1964 USGS Mc Kinnon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Firehole Canyon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

20 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Rendezvous between 2001 and 2020, burning about 64 acres in total. 17 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	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	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
6 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Rock Springs Field Office	PHIL PICO
5 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Rock Springs Field Office	CEDAR MTN
19 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Rock Springs Field Office	BIRCH CREEK
27 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Rock Springs Field Office	ANDERSON CREEK
21 August 2020	Natural	12 acres	Rock Springs Field Office	JEEP TRAIL
21 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Rock Springs Field Office	LONE TREE
20 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Rock Springs Field Office	FOSSIL FIRE
9 July 2004	Natural	under an acre	Rock Springs Field Office	BURNTFORK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sweetwater County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Rendezvous: 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
State Highway Dept	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Indian	Uranium	Unknown
Paintpot Claims	Uranium	Prospect
Spirit, Uinta, Indian, Paintpot	Uranium	Occurrence

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
McKinnon	2.0 miles	9
Burntfork	3.2 miles	8
Washam	10.0 miles	9
Squaw Hollow (historical)	22.2 miles	10
Granger Junction	34.1 miles	8
Little America	34.2 miles	8
Granger	37.3 miles	8
Greenhough Place	37.6 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1597471. 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.