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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1949 USGS Shawnee quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Shawnee quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Torrington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Torrington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Shawnee quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
7 since 1996Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2005 | Natural | 273 acres | Casper Field Office | WHACK |
| 24 July 2019 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 80 acres | Converse County | EAST ANTELOPE |
| 23 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 60 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | WINTERMOTE |
| 15 July 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.8 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 6 June 2012 | Natural | 150 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | BRUEGGER |
| 14 June 2020 | Natural | 374 acres | Converse County | FLAT TOP |
| 1 October 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Faith #2 and #3 | Uranium | Prospect | ||
| Fox #8 and #10 | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Henry Reese Fee Land | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Lost Springs | Uranium | Past Producer | ||
| Lost Springs District Prospect | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Uranium | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Uranium | Occurrence | Stratabound |
Storms near this place
1 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Shawnee | - | Brief touchdown in open country reported by spotter. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lost Springs | 4.6 miles | 7 | |
| Deadmans Corner | 8.2 miles | 9 | |
| Ammon | 10.5 miles | 8 | |
| Orin Junction | 11.2 miles | 8 | |
| Orin | 11.7 miles | 8 | |
| Irvine | 16.7 miles | 9 | |
| Douglas | 19.8 miles | 10 | |
| Orpha | 27.2 miles | 9 |
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 Shawnee | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7491511 | The 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.





