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Sage, Wyoming

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Kemmerer West census division. It lies near Bulldog Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Sage quadrangle. It stands 6,332 feet above sea level.

Sage within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Sage between 1994 and 2018, burning about 296 acres 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
11 September 1994Natural80 acresRock Springs Field OfficeGOOSEBERRY
17 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKemmerer Field OfficeSAGE
5 July 2014Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKemmerer Field OfficeDERAILED
29 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKemmerer Field OfficeTWIN
18 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.8 acresKemmerer Field OfficeDEER CREEK
27 June 2007Natural200 acresKemmerer Field OfficeSAGE JCT
24 June 2007Naturalunder an acreKemmerer Field OfficeBOTTLE ROCKET
25 March 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresKemmerer Field OfficeLAMBCHOP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Sage: 4 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium. 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
Leefe Mill (Facility)Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
Leefe MinePhosphorus-Phosphates, UraniumPast Producer1905, 1908, 1978
UnknownUraniumOccurrenceStratabound
State Line PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sage in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2025Thunderstorm WindSage-Wind gusts of 59 mph occurred to the east of Sage Junction.

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Carlson2.9 miles10
Leefe3.5 miles13
Fossil12.4 miles10
Cokeville18.6 miles14
Elkol19.3 miles11
Frontier22.3 miles10
Kemmerer22.3 miles10
Diamondville22.4 miles10

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 SageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19877656The 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 1597485. 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.