Three Forks, Wyoming

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Rawlins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82301. It stands on Big Camp Creek. The Survey maps it on the Muddy Gap quadrangle.

Three Forks within Carbon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1955 USGS Casper quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Casper quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Casper quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Muddy Gap quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Bairoil quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Casper quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Three Forks between 1996 and 2019, burning about 27 acres in total. 4 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	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
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
8 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Rawlins Field Office	MUDDY GAP
6 August 2000	Smoking	17 acres	Rawlins Field Office	MUDDY
4 August 2001	Natural	1.2 acres	Rawlins Field Office	WHISKEY
25 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Rawlins Field Office	BLACK CANYON
31 July 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	2.3 acres	Lander Field Office	789 MP3
3 July 2018	Natural	4.8 acres	Lander Field Office	TURKEY TRACK
25 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Rawlins Field Office	MILE MARKER 43
21 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Rawlins Field Office	MM41

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Muddy Gap

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Three Forks: 3 prospects, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Limestone, Dimension, Bentonite, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Ferris Mountains (bentonite occurrence)	Bentonite	Prospect
Unknown	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
County Line Claims	Uranium	Prospect
Jenie Claim #1	Uranium	Prospect

Every working recorded in Carbon 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
Muddy Gap	1.0 miles	8
Lamont	9.9 miles	8
Marvin Place (historical)	16.6 miles	10
Ferris (historical)	18.1 miles	10
McCargar Place	19.9 miles	10
Seminoe Dam	31.5 miles	10
Leo	34.9 miles	9
Rawlins	40.9 miles	12

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 Three Forks	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18394279	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 1595534. 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.