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Seminoe Dam, Wyoming

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Rawlins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82334. It stands on Morgan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Seminoe Dam quadrangle. It stands 6,357 feet above sea level.

Seminoe Dam within Carbon 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

28 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Seminoe Dam between 1993 and 2018, burning about 4,111 acres in total. 24 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
Natural24
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2018Natural4.0 acresNatrona CountyBADWATER FIRE
7 August 2007Naturalunder an acreRawlins Field OfficePOWERHOUSE
30 August 1994Natural1.0 acresRawlins Field OfficeCANYON
29 August 2006Naturalunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeSEMINOE
26 August 2000Naturalunder an acreRawlins Field OfficePOWERHOUSE
2 August 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeSEMINOE BOAT CLUB
17 August 2018Natural1.5 acresRawlins Field OfficeMORGAN
17 August 2018Naturalunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeMIRACLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Seminoe Dam: 2 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Garnet, Asbestos. 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
Seminoe DamUraniumUnknown
Seminoe DistrictGold, Copper, AsbestosPast Producer
Charlie's Glory HoleGoldProspectGold
UnknownCopper, GarnetOccurrence
UnknownGarnetOccurrence

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Seminoe Dam in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2018: 2 hail, 1 tornado, 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 2018HailSeminoe Dam-Quarter size hail was observed near Seminoe Dam.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindSeminoe Dam-Estimated wind gusts of 55 to 60 mph were observed west of Seminoe Dam.
June 1997Tornado (F0)Seminoe Dam-Brief touchdown in open country just south of Seminoe Reservoir.
June 2003HailSeminoe Dam-no account filed

Every storm 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
Leo8.7 miles9
McCargar Place12.0 miles10
Ferris (historical)14.4 miles10
Marvin Place (historical)15.4 miles10
Shirley (historical)23.0 miles9
Edson24.6 miles16
Paradise25.0 miles9
Fort Steele26.2 miles15

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 Seminoe DamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7449489The 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 1594097. 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.