Teckla, Wyoming

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1974. It stands in the Gillette South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82701. The Survey maps it on the Teckla quadrangle. It stands 4,836 feet above sea level.

Teckla within Campbell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

1955 USGS Newcastle quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Newcastle quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Teckla quadrangle1:24000
1974 USGS Reno Junction quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

48 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Teckla between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,708 acres in total. 7 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 maintenance	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Natural	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Smoking	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	IDA FIRE
6 September 2015	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	RAIL ROAD 55 FIRE
5 September 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	22 acres	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	FLOWING WELL
5 September 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	22 acres	Campbell County	NORTH ANTELOPE
4 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
2 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
8 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	MAKEY FIRE #5
8 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	MAKEY FIRE #4

Every fire recorded in Campbell 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Wright	14.5 miles	7
Turnercrest	16.9 miles	8
Savageton	31.4 miles	10
Pleasantdale	40.7 miles	8
Antelope Valley	46.6 miles	9
Crestview	47.0 miles	9
Sleepy Hollow	47.3 miles	9
Sunburst	48.7 miles	10

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 Q30622328

The 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 1603542. 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.