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Shawnee, Wyoming

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Douglas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82633. The Survey maps it on the Shawnee quadrangle. It stands 5,059 feet above sea level.

Shawnee within Converse County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Shawnee between 1996 and 2020, burning about 942 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
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
13 September 2005Natural273 acresCasper Field OfficeWHACK
24 July 2019Railroad operations and maintenance80 acresConverse CountyEAST ANTELOPE
23 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use60 acresWyoming State ForestryWINTERMOTE
15 July 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.8 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
6 June 2012Natural150 acresWyoming State ForestryBRUEGGER
14 June 2020Natural374 acresConverse CountyFLAT TOP
1 October 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Converse County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Shawnee: 4 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. 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
Faith #2 and #3UraniumProspect
Fox #8 and #10UraniumOccurrence
Henry Reese Fee LandUraniumOccurrence
Lost SpringsUraniumPast Producer
Lost Springs District ProspectUraniumOccurrence
UnknownUraniumProducer
UnknownUraniumOccurrenceStratabound

Every working recorded in Converse County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shawnee in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 tornado. 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 1997Tornado (F0)Shawnee-Brief touchdown in open country reported by spotter.

Every storm recorded in Converse 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
Lost Springs4.6 miles7
Deadmans Corner8.2 miles9
Ammon10.5 miles8
Orin Junction11.2 miles8
Orin11.7 miles8
Irvine16.7 miles9
Douglas19.8 miles10
Orpha27.2 miles9

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 ShawneeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7491511The 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 1594167. 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.