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Sunrise, Wyoming

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Guernsey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82215. It lies near Sparks Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Guernsey quadrangle. It stands 4,902 feet above sea level.

Sunrise within Platte County

On record in Sunrise

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Sunrise between 1994 and 2020, burning about 17,461 acres in total. 10 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
Natural10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning2
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
15 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePlatte CountyN23
5 August 2002Natural2.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
23 August 2001Natural669 acresCasper Field OfficeBOHNSTEAD
19 August 2019Natural1.0 acresPlatte CountyROCK SLIDE FIRE
15 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
27 July 2006Natural13,305 acresCasper Field OfficeOLD CHICAGO
24 July 2019Naturalunder an acreCasper Field OfficeGOSHEN RIM
22 July 2012Naturalunder an acreCasper Field OfficeSUNRISE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Platte County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Sunrise: 9 occurrences, 6 past producers, 6 unknowns, 5 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Mica, Copper, Dolomite. 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
Chicago ProspectStrontiumUnknown
Green Mtn BoyCopper, SilverPast Producer
Guernsey QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Haystack No 2 ClaimFeldsparOccurrence
Ingleside QuarriesLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Pete Kiewit & SonsStoneProducer
Sunrise MineIron, ZincPast Producer1887, 1901, 1963
UnknownCalciumProducer
UnknownGoldOccurrence
UnknownBerylliumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Platte County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sunrise in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2019: 2 flood, 1 tornado. 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
September 2019Tornado (EFU)Sunrise-Observer along with nearby storm chasers noted supercell thunderstorm producing a wedge-shaped tornado. Terrain and lack of visual evidence of any associated damage leaves rating as unknown with path width being an estimated value as well.
May 2018FloodSunrise-Several inches of standing water reported at the intersection of Crescent Basin Road and Whalen Canyon Road.
May 2014FloodSunrise-Runoff from three to six inches of rain that fell during the evening of May 21 flooded Highway 320 in both directions between Wheatland and Highway 26. Road damage from washouts resulted in the closure of county roads across east central Platte County. In Guernsey, road closures included Lucinda Rawlins. In Wheatland, road closures included East Johnson to Highway 320, Wendover Road, Cottonwood Road, North Dwyer Road and Badger Road.

Every storm recorded in Platte 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
Hartville1.1 miles15
Guernsey4.6 miles15
Wendover8.9 miles15
Cassa14.2 miles15
Dwyer14.6 miles14
Meadowdale15.3 miles7
Dwyer Junction16.7 miles14
Uva17.8 miles14

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 SunriseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7641015The 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 1595212. 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.