Rudefeha, 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 lies near McCormick Peak. The Survey maps it on the Bridger Peak quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Rudefeha within Carbon County

On record in Rudefeha

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Grand Encampment Mining Region: Ferris-Haggarty Mine Sitelisted 1973 · 0.2 miles away

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

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Rudefeha (historical) between 1996 and 2020, burning about 120 acres in total. 5 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	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	BABY
2 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	MILL CREEK
1 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	BATTLE CREEK
5 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	BATTLE LAKE
6 July 1996	Natural	1.8 acres	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	UNIT 38
28 July 2009	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	SMITH CREEK
22 July 2013	Natural	103 acres	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	WEST BATTLE CREEK
15 July 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	443

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Rudefeha (historical): 7 prospects, 6 occurrences, 4 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Uranium, Gold, Iron. 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
Ferris-Haggarty Mine	Copper, Silver, Gold, Uranium	Past Producer	1897
Island City Group Prospect	Copper, Silver, Gold, Iron	Prospect	Copper, Pyrrhotite
Unknown	Gemstone	Occurrence
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Dreamland King Group	Copper, Gold	Occurrence	Azurite, Malachite, Gold
Hawkeye	Iron, Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Octavia Prospect	Copper, Iron	Prospect	Calcite, Pyrite, Chalcopyrite
Spring Creek Prospect	Gold	Occurrence	Gold

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
Dillon (historical)	1.4 miles	16
Rambler (historical)	4.0 miles	16
Copperton (historical)	4.2 miles	16
Battle (historical)	5.2 miles	17
Dexterville (historical)	9.7 miles	17
Elwood (historical)	9.9 miles	17
Tullis	12.4 miles	16
Encampment	15.0 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1597483. 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.