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Thayer Junction, Wyoming

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Rock Springs South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82901. It lies near Horsethief Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Thayer Junction quadrangle. It stands 6,440 feet above sea level.

Thayer Junction within Sweetwater County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Thayer Junction between 1994 and 2019, burning about 95 acres in total. 6 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
Natural6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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/undetermined1.0 acresSweetwater CountyI80
21 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficePOINT OF ROCKS
4 August 1994Natural35 acresRock Springs Field OfficeBLACK
27 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeMM 124
25 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeMM 123
25 August 2005Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresRock Springs Field OfficeI 80
22 August 2005Other causesunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeCOPPER
9 July 2014Naturalunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficePOINT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sweetwater County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Thayer Junction: 9 occurrences, 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sodium. 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
UnknownSodiumOccurrence
State Highway Department ledge rock quarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
State Highway Department ledge rock quarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
State Highway DeptSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
State Highway DeptSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mud No. 1 and No. 2 ClaimsUraniumOccurrence
SuperiorUraniumOccurrence
UnknownUraniumOccurrence
UnknownUraniumOccurrence
UnknownUraniumOccurrence

Every working 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
Salt Wells4.5 miles8
South Superior6.0 miles10
Point of Rocks6.7 miles8
Dines (historical)14.1 miles11
Winton (historical)14.2 miles11
Stansbury14.7 miles11
Reliance15.2 miles11
Sweeney Ranch15.2 miles9

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 Thayer JunctionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28913593The 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 1597519. 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.