BlockWest Thumb, Wyoming
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Yellowstone National Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82190. It stands on Big Thumb Creek. The Survey maps it on the West Thumb quadrangle. It stands 7,795 feet above sea level.
On record in West Thumb
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
Old Faithful InnNational Historic Landmark · listed 1973
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 19 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.
- 1886 USGS Shoshone quadrangle1:125000
- 1888 USGS Shoshone quadrangle1:125000
- 1895 USGS Shoshone quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Shoshone quadrangle1:125000
- 1908 USGS Shoshone quadrangle1:125000
- 1911 USGS Shoshone quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS West Thumb quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Yellowstone National Park South quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS West Thumb quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
25 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of West Thumb between 1994 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 2 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 18 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Yellowstone National Park | CHICKADEE |
| 7 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Yellowstone National Park | THUMB |
| 4 August 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Yellowstone National Park | CARRINGTON |
| 3 August 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Yellowstone National Park | THUMB |
| 29 August 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Yellowstone National Park | POTTS BASIN |
| 27 August 2002 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Yellowstone National Park | DUCK |
| 27 August 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Yellowstone National Park | GRANT |
| 27 August 1996 | Natural | 6.7 acres | Yellowstone National Park | CHICKADEE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake | 13.7 miles | 22 | |
| Three River Junction | 19.0 miles | 18 | |
| Colter Bay Village | 35.4 miles | 15 | |
| Moran | 39.8 miles | 16 | |
| Elk | 43.4 miles | 16 | |
| Beaver Creek | 51.0 miles | 15 | |
| Alta | 51.8 miles | 10 | |
| Moose | 53.0 miles | 15 |
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 West Thumb | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14714862 | 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 1597535. 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.