Willwood, 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 lies in Willwood Draw. The Survey maps it on the Ralston quadrangle.

Willwood within Park County

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
1967 USGS Ralston quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Powell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

33 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Willwood between 2002 and 2018, burning about 36 acres in total. 1 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	21
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Fireworks	2
Natural	1
Smoking	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
8 August 2002	Natural	1.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
3 August 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Park County	142
27 August 2017	Smoking	1.0 acres	Park County	154
22 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Park County	152
17 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
9 July 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Park County	131
5 July 2017	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Park County	116
4 July 2018	Fireworks	2.0 acres	Park County	120

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Park County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Willwood: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown	Sulfur	Unknown

Every working recorded in Park County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Willwood in 1 storm report in 2015: 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 2015	Hail	Willwood	-	A trained spotter reported hail up to the size of nickels covering US Highway 14/16/20 near milepost 71.

Every storm 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
Powell	4.0 miles	7
Ralston	5.7 miles	7
Garland	7.8 miles	7
Kamms Corner	9.4 miles	7
Vocation	10.0 miles	7
Lone Tree Crossing	17.4 miles	7
Cody	19.6 miles	11
Elk Basin	21.0 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1989111. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.