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Silver Tip, Wyoming

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Torrington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82244. The Survey maps it on the Yoder quadrangle.

Silver Tip within Goshen County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Silver Tip between 2017 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning3
Natural1

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
20 August 2019Natural1.0 acresGoshen County17 ON 154
1 July 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresGoshen CountyHANSEN FIRE
24 June 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresGoshen CountyWHISPERING WINGS
17 December 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresGoshen County3544 RD 52

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Goshen 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
Yoder1.6 miles13
Fonda5.5 miles12
Huntley6.5 miles13
Veteran6.9 miles12
Heldt7.1 miles18
Cottier7.4 miles18
Hawk Springs8.9 miles12
South Torrington10.4 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1597496. 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.