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Willow Creek, Wyoming

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Wind River Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82512. It stands on Meadow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Crowheart quadrangle.

Willow Creek within Fremont County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

Fires near this place

11 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Willow Creek between 2001 and 2020, burning about 619 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined5
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWind River AgencyYELLOWSTONE HWY #2
5 August 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWind River AgencyYELLOWSTONE HWY #1
9 July 2001Naturalunder an acreWind River AgencyMEADOW CRK
27 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFremont County86 HWY 26
14 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWind River AgencyMARKER 92
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFremont CountyNONE
19 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFremont CountyNONE
16 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined614 acresLander Field OfficeCROWHEART

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Willow Creek in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2020FloodWillow Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fremont 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Crowheart3.2 miles10
Burris8.9 miles11
Collins Place17.0 miles12
Morton20.3 miles9
Bain Place22.8 miles13
Fort Washakie23.6 miles8
Pavillion24.1 miles8
Wind River24.7 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1597543. 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.