Winton, Wyoming

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Rock Springs North census division. The Survey maps it on the Reliance quadrangle. It stands 6,965 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Winton within Sweetwater County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1908 USGS Rock Springs quadrangle1:62500
1910 USGS Rock Springs quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Rock Springs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Rock Springs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Rock Springs quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Reliance quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Rock Springs quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Winton (historical) between 2011 and 2018, burning about 2 acres in total. 3 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
Natural	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
4 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Rock Springs Field Office	TOP
4 August 2013	Natural	1.0 acres	Rock Springs Field Office	KILLPEPPER CREEK
20 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Rock Springs Field Office	WINTON
16 July 2011	Natural	under an acre	Rock Springs Field Office	STANSBURY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sweetwater County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Winton (historical): 5 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Hopefull	Uranium	Occurrence
State Highway Department ledge rock quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
State Highway Department ledge rock quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Uranium	Occurrence
State Highway Dept	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
State Highway Dept	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
State Highway Dept	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Sweetwater 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
Dines (historical)	1.5 miles	11
Stansbury	3.3 miles	11
Reliance	5.6 miles	11
North Rock Springs	8.8 miles	9
South Superior	10.7 miles	10
Rock Springs	11.2 miles	13
Salt Wells	11.5 miles	8
Blairtown	12.5 miles	13

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 Winton (historical)	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8026602	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 1597546. 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.