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Savery, Wyoming

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Rawlins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82332. It lies near Dolan Mesa. The Survey maps it on the Savery quadrangle. It stands 6,473 feet above sea level.

Savery within Carbon County

On record in Savery

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

9 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Savery between 2001 and 2017, burning about 24 acres in total. 6 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
Natural6
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
4 September 2001Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, CraigFANROCK
6 August 2013Naturalunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeHIGHWAY 70
19 August 2011Naturalunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeCHAULK BLUFF
16 August 2010Natural1.0 acresRawlins Field OfficeDIXON AIRPORT
30 July 2010Natural1.0 acresRawlins Field OfficeREADERS CEMETARY
30 July 2001Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
29 April 2012Natural1.0 acresWyoming State ForestryDAVIS RANCH
20 April 2017Debris and open burning15 acresCarbon CountyBAGGS 70

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Savery: 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
CobbSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Cresent Uranium GroupUraniumOccurrence

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Dixon4.6 miles13
Baggs11.0 miles13
Tullis16.2 miles16
Copperton (historical)19.2 miles16
Dexterville (historical)20.1 miles17
Dillon (historical)21.6 miles16
Rudefeha (historical)23.0 miles16
Rambler (historical)25.2 miles16

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 SaveryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7428190The 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 1593956. 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.