Shirley, Wyoming

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Hanna census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82327. It stands on Hill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pine Hill quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Shirley within Carbon 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.

1955 USGS Casper quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Casper quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Pine Hill quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Casper quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Shirley Basin quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Casper quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

7 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Shirley (historical) between 1992 and 2017, burning about 60 acres in total. 5 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	5
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
3 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Rawlins Field Office	GUARD STAT
2 August 1992	Natural	50 acres	Rawlins Field Office	SEMINOE
1 August 2001	Natural	7.0 acres	Rawlins Field Office	BALD MTN
6 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
21 July 2007	Natural	under an acre	Rawlins Field Office	SHIRLEY MOUNTAIN
19 July 2017	Natural	1.0 acres	Carbon County	MONUMENT CREEK
16 October 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Rawlins Field Office	SHIRLEY'S

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Shirley (historical): 2 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Ajo Claims	Uranium	Past Producer	Tyuyamunite
Jim Claims	Uranium	Prospect
Western-Standard Property	Uranium	Past Producer

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Paradise	7.0 miles	9
Leo	17.6 miles	9
Oil Springs	17.8 miles	12
Sampo (historical)	19.8 miles	13
Elmo	21.6 miles	17
Hanna	22.4 miles	17
Seminoe Dam	23.0 miles	10
Carbon	24.1 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1597493. 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.