BlockUva, Wyoming
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Guernsey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82201. It stands on North Laramie River. The Survey maps it on the Dwyer quadrangle. It stands 4,475 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1896 USGS Hartville quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Hartville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Dwyer quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Torrington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Torrington quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Torrington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Dwyer quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
30 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Uva between 2002 and 2020, burning about 353 acres in total. 4 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 | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Platte County | BASIN POLE FIRE |
| 25 August 2011 | Natural | 111 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | CRISS RANCH |
| 31 July 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 31 July 2002 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 3 July 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Platte County | BELLIS ROAD |
| 25 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Platte County | JOHNSON |
| 23 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 2 July 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Platte County | 320 E FAIRVIEW |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Uva in 1 storm report in 2018: 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2018 | Hail | Uva | - | 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 Uva | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22073506 | 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 1595893. 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.