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Ucross, Wyoming

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Sheridan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82835. It stands on Piney Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ucross quadrangle. It stands 4,081 feet above sea level.

Ucross within Sheridan County

On record in Ucross

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

8 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Ucross between 1992 and 2017, burning about 174 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning1

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
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresBuffalo Field OfficeFOWLER
24 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
21 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined120 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
13 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
13 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
25 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
28 May 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
22 March 2012Debris and open burning10 acresWyoming State ForestryVIGNIROLLI

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sheridan County

Storms near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ucross in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 6 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2024HailUcross-no account filed
June 2022HailUcross-no account filed
July 2019HailUcross-no account filed
August 2018HailUcross-no account filed
May 2014HailUcross-no account filed
June 2002HailUcross-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheridan 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
Ulm6.8 miles11
Clearmont10.1 miles7
Verona14.1 miles11
Banner17.5 miles13
Leiter18.0 miles7
Story18.4 miles12
Kendrick21.0 miles7
Wyarno21.4 miles12

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 UcrossAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14714855The 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 1609168. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.