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.
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
- Big Red Ranch Complexlisted 1984
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1909 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1911 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Ucross quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
8 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Buffalo Field Office | FOWLER |
| 24 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 21 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 120 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 13 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 13 August 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 25 July 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 28 May 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 22 March 2012 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | VIGNIROLLI |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2002Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2024 | Hail | Ucross | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Ucross | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Ucross | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Ucross | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Ucross | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Ucross | - | no account filed |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Ucross | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14714855 | 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 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.






