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Sand Draw, Wyoming

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Jeffrey City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82501. The Survey maps it on the Sand Draw quadrangle.

Sand Draw within Fremont County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Sand Draw between 2002 and 2020, burning about 43 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
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
6 September 2011Natural1.0 acresLander Field OfficeBOBCAT DRAW
5 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use27 acresLander Field OfficeOIL MOUNTAIN
10 August 2020Natural14 acresFremont CountyMCTURK
10 August 2020Naturalunder an acreWind River / Bighorn Basin DistrictOIL WELLS
2 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLander Field OfficeSAND DRAW
21 May 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLander Field OfficeSAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Sand Draw: 7 prospects, 6 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Zeolites. 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
Beaver DivideZeolitesUnknown
B & H #1UraniumPast Producer
Bearspring AreaUraniumUnknown
Canary #2UraniumProspect
Climax #19UraniumProspect
E-20 ClaimUraniumProspect
Franciscan ClaimsUraniumProspect
Jonebell #10UraniumProspect
M-9 ClaimUraniumProspect
Necessity #8UraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sand Draw in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2015: 1 lightning, 1 hail. 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 2009LightningSand Draw$40,000Lightning struck four tanks about 15 miles southeast of Riverton causing two to explode and all to rupture. Contents of the containers were spilled on the ground during the incident.
June 2015HailSand Draw-A NWS Employee found penny sized hail two inches deep 15 minutes after a storm passed across State Highway 135 near Sand Draw.

Every storm recorded in Fremont 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
Myersville (historical)14.2 miles8
Sweetwater Station15.1 miles9
Sweetwater Crossing15.1 miles9
Saint Stephens19.8 miles10
Riverton21.1 miles8
Arapahoe21.5 miles10
Kotey Place22.5 miles11
Hudson23.6 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1593854. 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.