Soda Butte, Wyoming
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Yellowstone National Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82190. It stands on Soda Butte. The Survey maps it on the Mount Hornaday quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 21 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.
- 1886 USGS Canyon quadrangle1:125000
- 1895 USGS Canyon quadrangle1:125000
- 1896 USGS Canyon quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1901 USGS Canyon quadrangle1:125000
- 1907 USGS Canyon quadrangle1:125000
- 1911 USGS Canyon quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1955 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Yellowstone National Park North quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Mount Hornaday quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
21 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Soda Butte (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 389 acres in total. 19 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 | 19 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 August 2013 | Natural | 205 acres | Yellowstone National Park | DRUID |
| 7 August 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Yellowstone National Park | HORNADAY |
| 4 August 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Yellowstone National Park | ASH |
| 4 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Yellowstone National Park | AMETHYST |
| 30 August 2009 | Natural | 180 acres | Yellowstone National Park | BUTTE |
| 3 August 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Yellowstone National Park | SODA |
| 3 August 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Yellowstone National Park | SODA |
| 28 August 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Yellowstone National Park | PEBBLE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bannock Ford | 11.9 miles | 24 | |
| Buffalo Ford | 12.3 miles | 24 | |
| Tower Junction | 14.2 miles | 24 | |
| Yanceys | 15.4 miles | 24 | |
| Canyon Village | 20.4 miles | 22 | |
| Canyon Junction | 20.5 miles | 22 | |
| Pahaska Tepee | 27.8 miles | 19 | |
| Mammoth | 29.9 miles | 20 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1597500. 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.










