BlockUlm, Wyoming
11 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 lies near Prusak Draw. The Survey maps it on the Ulm quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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 Ulm quadrangle1:24000
- 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 Ulm between 1992 and 1996, burning about 5,688 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 | 8 |
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 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 24 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4,000 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 21 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 120 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 21 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,500 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 13 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 22 August 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 25 July 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 1 July 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ulm in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2018: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1609169. 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.