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Strouds, Wyoming

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Casper South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82636. It lies near Scott Hill. The Survey maps it on the Brookhurst quadrangle.

Strouds within Natrona County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

134 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Strouds between 1992 and 2020, burning about 16,165 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined81
Natural14
Fireworks8
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Firearms and explosives use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 September 2019Naturalunder an acreCasper Field OfficeCOMPOST
6 September 2017Naturalunder an acreCasper Field OfficeCOLE CREEK
5 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNatrona CountyLANDMARK
4 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNatrona CountyMORADO
4 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNatrona CountySE WYOMING BLVD
25 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNatrona CountyMCKINLEY FIRE
2 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNatrona CountyNA
2 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresNatrona CountyIMIGRANT TRAIL FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Natrona County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Strouds: 8 producers, 1 past producer. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bentonite. 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
Benton Clay Co MillBentoniteProducer
Kaycee Clay MineBentoniteProducer
Kaycee MineBentoniteProducer
Bradshaw PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Casper Concrete Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hidebrand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lathrop L-3 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
State Land PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sun Ray PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Natrona 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
Brookhurst0.3 miles11
Evansville1.5 miles11
Casper3.9 miles11
Thorndale Acres4.5 miles11
Allendale4.6 miles11
Hartrandt6.1 miles11
Richardson Acres6.2 miles11
Midwest Heights6.4 miles11

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 StroudsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22073504The 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 1597511. 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.