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South Pass City, Wyoming

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Lander census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82520. It lies near Big Hermit Gulch. The Survey maps it on the South Pass City quadrangle.

South Pass City within Fremont County

On record in South Pass City

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

39 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of South Pass City between 1994 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 13 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
Natural13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony8
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1

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 2006Smokingunder an acreShoshone National ForestFOREST
27 September 2010Recreation and ceremony2.1 acresLander Field OfficeMARY ANN
27 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.3 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
25 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreShoshone National ForestWILLOW
19 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLander Field OfficeROCK CREEK
13 September 1997Naturalunder an acreShoshone National ForestSLATE CREEK
25 August 2002Naturalunder an acreShoshone National ForestLOUIS
20 August 2003Naturalunder an acreShoshone National ForestLITTLE PINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of South Pass City: 14 past producers, 4 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sulfur-Pyrite, Arsenic, Silver, Tungsten. 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
Carissa MineGold, Arsenic, NickelPast Producer1850
Duncan MineGold, SilverPast Producer
Mechanic &Emerald LodeSulfur-Pyrite, CopperOccurrence
Sixty Seven Mile Pit BlmSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
South Pass MinesTungstenOccurrenceScheelite
St Louis MineGold, ManganeseOccurrence
Tabor Grand MineArsenic, GoldProspect
UnknownGold, Silver, CopperProducer
UnknownUraniumOccurrence
Duncan MineGold, SilverPast ProducerGold, Silver

Every working recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Pass City in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2024: 3 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 2023Thunderstorm WindSouth Pass City-Very strong wind occurred as thunderstorms moved across the Wind River Mountains. Where winds tend to channel near Red Canyon, a maximum 96 mph wind gust occurred. A 60 mph wind gust occurred to the west of South Pass City.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindSouth Pass City-An automated station on South Pass recorded a 61 mph wind gust as a result of outflow wind from a thunderstorm moving from Sweetwater County into Fremont County.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindSouth Pass City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fremont 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
Erramouspe Place3.5 miles13
Atlantic City4.2 miles10
Last Crossing Ford Number 97.7 miles10
Miners Delight7.7 miles12
Kotey Place20.5 miles11
Lander25.4 miles12
Wyopo27.4 miles12
Milford28.2 miles10

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.

Wikipedia article on South Pass CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q499629The 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 1603193. 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.