Vocation, Wyoming

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Powell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82435. It stands on Buck Creek. The Survey maps it on the Vocation quadrangle.

Vocation within Park County

On record in Vocation

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Heart Mountain Relocation CenterNational Historic Landmark · listed 1985 · 0.5 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1955 USGS Cody quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Cody quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Cody quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Vocation quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Powell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

36 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Vocation between 1996 and 2020, burning about 76 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
Debris and open burning	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Recreation and ceremony	8
Fireworks	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
13 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Park County	90 ROAD 20
7 August 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	ANDO
25 August 2018	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Park County	166
24 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Park County	24 RD 20
16 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Park County	83 LANE 16
16 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	7.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
9 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Park County	121
8 July 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Park 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Kamms Corner	4.3 miles	7
Ralston	5.5 miles	7
Willwood	10.0 miles	7
Cody	11.2 miles	11
Powell	11.7 miles	7
Garland	17.0 miles	7
Badger Basin	19.4 miles	11
Lone Tree Crossing	19.5 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1597529. 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.