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Table Rock, Wyoming

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Wamsutter census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82901. The Survey maps it on the Table Rock quadrangle. It stands 6,824 feet above sea level.

Table Rock within Sweetwater County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Table Rock between 1992 and 2020, burning about 547 acres in total. 3 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
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeBLOOMING FLOWER
3 September 2018Fireworksunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeCONTANENTAL
27 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresRawlins Field OfficeG L
27 September 2001Railroad operations and maintenance8.0 acresRawlins Field OfficeTWO TRACKS
21 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSweetwater CountyMM155
14 September 2002Natural4.0 acresRock Springs Field OfficeBAR 10
4 August 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeADOBE
24 August 2001Railroad operations and maintenance50 acresRawlins Field OfficeBAR X

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sweetwater County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Table Rock: 2 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
State Highway Department Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownUraniumOccurrence
UnknownUraniumOccurrence
Unknown Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Sweetwater County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Table Rock in 1 storm report in 2017: 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
May 2017Tornado (EF0)Table Rock$1,000There were numerous reports of a tornado just north of Interstate 80. The tornado lifted and touched down numerous times as it moved eastward. A motor home had it's windshield blown out by strong winds, and an 84 mph wind gust was reported at the weather sensor near Tipton.

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
Robinson3.2 miles7
Monell5.3 miles7
J O Junction5.4 miles7
Tipton6.7 miles7
Bitter Creek9.9 miles7
Fort LaClede (historical)13.7 miles6
Red Desert14.4 miles8
Point of Rocks21.6 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.

Wikipedia article on Table RockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1825669The 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 1595289. 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.