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Sibylee, Wyoming

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Wheatland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82201. It stands on Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wheatland quadrangle.

Sibylee within Platte County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

83 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Sibylee between 2001 and 2020, burning about 164 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Debris and open burning23
Equipment and vehicle use9
Fireworks7
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

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
21 September 2018Smoking1.0 acresPlatte County312 FIRE
16 September 2018Fireworksunder an acrePlatte CountyFESTO LAKE FIRE
8 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePlatte County86 I-25
6 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePlatte County97 FIRE
4 August 2003Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
28 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acrePlatte CountyPREUIT ROAD FIRE
27 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePlatte CountyBASIN POLE FIRE
22 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresPlatte CountyRAWHIDE TRL FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Platte County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sibylee: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Basins MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Platte County

Storms near this place

3 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sibylee in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2023: 3 hail. 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
June 2023HailSibylee-A storm chaser reported ping-pong ball sized hail 2 miles NNW of Wheatland.
June 2023HailSibylee-Quarter sized hail was reported 2 miles N of Wheatland via mPING.
June 2016HailSibylee-Quarter size hail was reported north of Wheatland at Highway 320 mile marker 6.

Every storm recorded in Platte 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
Curtis0.6 miles13
Wheatland1.9 miles13
Chugcreek2.9 miles13
Y-O Ranch3.5 miles13
Uva3.8 miles14
Gibson4.3 miles13
Whiting4.8 miles13
Westview Circle6.2 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.

Wikidata item Q122563849The 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 1597494. 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.