BlockSnyder Place, Wyoming
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Shoshoni census division. The Survey maps it on the Cottonwood Pass quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1952 USGS Cottonwood Pass quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Arminto quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Arminto quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Arminto quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Lysite quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
10 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Snyder Place between 1993 and 2019, burning about 595 acres in total. 9 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 | 9 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2001 | Natural | 529 acres | Worland Field Office | LYCITE MTN |
| 27 August 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Lander Field Office | DRAINAGE |
| 23 August 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Lander Field Office | EAST COTTONWOOD |
| 20 August 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | LYSITE |
| 16 August 1995 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Casper Field Office | BAD WATER |
| 5 July 1994 | Natural | 10 acres | Rawlins Field Office | DAVIS PASS |
| 27 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 24 July 1998 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Rawlins Field Office | MONUMENT |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Snyder Place: 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Selenium, Beryllium, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ellsworth Claim | Uranium | Prospect | ||
| Unknown | Selenium | Prospect | ||
| Unknown | Beryllium | Occurrence |
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 Cabin | 10.0 miles | 7 | |
| Lysite | 12.6 miles | 7 | |
| Madden | 14.9 miles | 6 | |
| Moneta | 19.8 miles | 7 | |
| Bonneville | 29.2 miles | 9 | |
| Shoshoni | 31.9 miles | 7 | |
| Boysen | 32.6 miles | 8 | |
| Midvale | 49.1 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.
| Wikidata item Q122591961 | 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 1597499. 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.