Salt Wells, Wyoming

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Rock Springs South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82901. It stands on Black Butte Creek. The Survey maps it on the Thayer Junction quadrangle. It stands 6,375 feet above sea level.

Salt Wells within Sweetwater County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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
1968 USGS Thayer Junction quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Red Desert Basin quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Salt Wells between 1993 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined	7
Fireworks	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	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
3 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Sweetwater County	I80
21 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Rock Springs Field Office	POINT OF ROCKS
27 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Rock Springs Field Office	MM 124
21 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sweetwater County	I-80 FIRE
5 July 1993	Fireworks	under an acre	Rock Springs Field Office	HORSE COR
4 July 2014	Fireworks	under an acre	Rock Springs Field Office	TRACK
28 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Rock Springs Field Office	DRY LAKE
30 June 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Rock Springs Field Office	SOUTH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sweetwater 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 Salt Wells: 6 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sodium. 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
Unknown	Sodium	Occurrence
State Highway Department Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
State Highway Department Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
State Highway Department Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
State Highway Department Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
State Highway Department Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
State Highway Dept	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

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
Thayer Junction	4.5 miles	8
South Superior	7.5 miles	10
Point of Rocks	10.8 miles	8
Dines (historical)	11.1 miles	11
Stansbury	11.2 miles	11
Reliance	11.2 miles	11
Winton (historical)	11.5 miles	11
Sweeney Ranch	12.1 miles	9

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 Q132419209

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 1597488. 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.