BlockThree River Junction, Wyoming
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Yellowstone National Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82190. It stands on Ferris Fork. The Survey maps it on the Trischman Knob quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 18 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.
- 1886 USGS Shoshone quadrangle1:125000
- 1888 USGS Shoshone quadrangle1:125000
- 1895 USGS Shoshone quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Shoshone quadrangle1:125000
- 1908 USGS Shoshone quadrangle1:125000
- 1911 USGS Shoshone quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Old Faithful quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Yellowstone National Park South quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Trischman Knob quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
13 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Three River Junction between 1994 and 2012, burning about 13 acres in total. 13 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 | 13 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2011 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Yellowstone National Park | HEADWATERS |
| 2 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Yellowstone National Park | RANGER |
| 2 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Yellowstone National Park | TREASURE |
| 10 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Yellowstone National Park | UNION |
| 7 August 1995 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Yellowstone National Park | DOUGLAS |
| 4 August 2012 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Yellowstone National Park | SHOSHONE |
| 27 August 2011 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Yellowstone National Park | OUZEL |
| 19 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Yellowstone National Park | STONE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Thumb | 19.0 miles | 19 | |
| Colter Bay Village | 29.7 miles | 15 | |
| Lake | 32.2 miles | 22 | |
| Moran | 37.0 miles | 16 | |
| Alta | 37.7 miles | 10 | |
| Elk | 39.2 miles | 16 | |
| Beaver Creek | 42.4 miles | 15 | |
| Moose | 44.7 miles | 15 |
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 Q122555662 | 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 1597522. 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.