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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.

Soda Butte within Park County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

21 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural19
Recreation and ceremony2

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
9 August 2013Natural205 acresYellowstone National ParkDRUID
7 August 2016Naturalunder an acreYellowstone National ParkHORNADAY
4 August 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreYellowstone National ParkASH
4 August 1994Naturalunder an acreYellowstone National ParkAMETHYST
30 August 2009Natural180 acresYellowstone National ParkBUTTE
3 August 2020Naturalunder an acreYellowstone National ParkSODA
3 August 1992Naturalunder an acreYellowstone National ParkSODA
28 August 2002Naturalunder an acreYellowstone National ParkPEBBLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Park 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
Bannock Ford11.9 miles24
Buffalo Ford12.3 miles24
Tower Junction14.2 miles24
Yanceys15.4 miles24
Canyon Village20.4 miles22
Canyon Junction20.5 miles22
Pahaska Tepee27.8 miles19
Mammoth29.9 miles20

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.