BlockTracy, Wyoming
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Pine Bluffs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82082. The Survey maps it on the Tracy quadrangle. It stands 5,171 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1954 USGS Cheyenne quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Cheyenne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Tracy quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Cheyenne quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Tracy between 2015 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 August 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Laramie County | MUDDY CREEK FIRE |
| 17 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Laramie County | MM398 |
| 30 May 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Laramie County | ROAD 210 |
| 6 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 8.2 acres | Laramie County | 1077 RD 161 |
| 11 March 2015 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 22 February 2020 | Debris and open burning | 8.2 acres | Laramie County | BLUE HILL FARMS |
| 16 January 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Laramie County | 1318 HWY 215 |
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.
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 Q29465957 | 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 1597524. 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.