Sampo, Wyoming

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Hanna census division. The Survey maps it on the Como West quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Sampo within Carbon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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.

1914 USGS Saddleback Hills quadrangle1:62500
1921 USGS Saddleback Hills quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Como West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Medicine Bow quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

16 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Sampo (historical) between 2003 and 2020, burning about 253 acres in total. 2 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Natural	2
Smoking	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
5 September 2020	Railroad operations and maintenance	3.7 acres	Carbon County	HANNA FIRE HALL
1 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Rawlins Field Office	WEST HANNA
15 August 2004	Railroad operations and maintenance	61 acres	Rawlins Field Office	COMO
11 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	106 acres	Carbon County	WHITE TANK
23 July 2011	Natural	under an acre	Rawlins Field Office	HANNA RAILROAD
23 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.1 acres	Rawlins Field Office	MILE POST 261
22 July 2007	Natural	1.5 acres	Rawlins Field Office	ARCH 2
21 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22 acres	Rawlins Field Office	RAMSY 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Elmo	2.8 miles	17
Hanna	4.3 miles	17
Carbon	7.1 miles	12
Paradise	13.2 miles	9
Oil Springs	13.4 miles	12
Medicine Bow	15.3 miles	14
Elk Mountain	15.4 miles	11
Coyote Springs	16.9 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1597489. 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.