BlockTemple Creek Summer Home Area, Wyoming
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Boulder census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82923. It stands on South Temple Creek. The Survey maps it on the Big Sandy Opening quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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 Lander quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Lander quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Lander quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS Big Sandy Opening quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1981 USGS Pinedale quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
29 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Temple Creek Summer Home Area between 1994 and 2020, burning about 880 acres in total. 14 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 14 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Bridger-Teton National Forest | MUDDY LAKE |
| 22 September 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | 9.3 acres | Bridger-Teton National Forest | IRISH |
| 20 September 2011 | Natural | 80 acres | Bridger-Teton National Forest | ASPEN CREEK |
| 16 September 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Bridger-Teton National Forest | DUTCH JOE |
| 15 September 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Bridger-Teton National Forest | IRISH |
| 9 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Bridger-Teton National Forest | NORTH TEMPLE |
| 26 August 2001 | Natural | 440 acres | Bridger-Teton National Forest | IRON CREEK |
| 24 August 2002 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Bridger-Teton National Forest | DUTCH JOE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Temple Creek Summer Home Area: 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Molybdenum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schiestler Peak molybdenum prospect | Molybdenum | Occurrence | Molybdenite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrite | |
| Temple Peak Deposit | Molybdenum | Occurrence | Molybdenite | |
| Unidentified Occurence | Molybdenum | Prospect | Molybdenite |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leckie | 6.7 miles | 11 | |
| Big Sandy | 11.0 miles | 9 | |
| Elkhorn Junction | 16.3 miles | 9 | |
| New Fork | 24.1 miles | 10 | |
| Boulder | 24.7 miles | 10 | |
| Sylvan Bay Summer Home Area | 34.0 miles | 11 | |
| Pinedale | 34.5 miles | 11 | |
| Cora | 42.4 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 Q122539706 | 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 1604741. 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.