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South Baxter, Wyoming

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Rock Springs South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82901. It lies near East Draw. The Survey maps it on the South Baxter quadrangle.

South Baxter within Sweetwater County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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 South Baxter between 1992 and 2019, burning about 12 acres in total. 16 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
Natural16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 September 2002Natural5.0 acresDinosaur National MonumentBURNT CANY
17 September 1992Naturalunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeDENNY S
17 September 1992Naturalunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeBEZANSON S
17 September 1992Naturalunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeLTL BITTER
7 August 1999Naturalunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeANTELOPE B
4 August 1996Naturalunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeKAPPES RAN
29 August 2010Naturalunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeCIRCLE
18 August 2007Naturalunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeASPEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sweetwater County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of South Baxter: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, Kaolin, Potassium. 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
Aspen MountainAluminum, Kaolin, PotassiumOccurrence1957
State Highway DeptSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sweetwater County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Baxter in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2010Thunderstorm WindSouth Baxter-A severe wind gust associated with thunderstorm outflow was recorded at Snow Springs RAWS.

Every storm recorded in Sweetwater 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
Sweeney Ranch9.7 miles9
Arrowhead Springs9.8 miles13
Quealy12.9 miles13
Blairtown15.3 miles13
Rock Springs15.7 miles13
Purple Sage16.6 miles8
Kanda16.8 miles8
Clearview Acres16.8 miles8

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 Q122550064The 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 1597502. 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.