Woodedge, Wyoming
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Hanna census division. It lies near Deer Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Arlington quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1954 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Arlington quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Medicine Bow quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
- 1992 USGS Arlington quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
8 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Woodedge between 1994 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. 4 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 | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Carbon County | MM278.2 |
| 24 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 acres | Carbon County | RINGSLEY |
| 24 August 2017 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Rawlins Field Office | MISTERLY |
| 2 August 2000 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | MORGAN |
| 3 July 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | ROCK CREEK |
| 21 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | WOODEDGE |
| 18 July 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | COOPER MTN |
| 11 July 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | COOPER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 14 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Woodedge: 7 prospects, 5 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Marble, Dimension, Copper, Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albion Mine | Silver, Copper, Lead, Gold, Zinc | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Chalcocite, Bornite, Galena | |
| Cooper Hill District | Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper | Past Producer | Pyrite, Chalcopyrite, Chalcocite, Galena, Polybasite, Gold, Malachite, Cerrusite, Limonite, Bornite, Chrysocolla | |
| Silver Queen Mine | Copper, Gold | Prospect | Chalcopyrite, Cuprite, Malachite, Chrysocolla, Limonite | |
| Medicine Bow Mountains Area (marble) | Marble, Dimension | Prospect | ||
| Unknown | Marble, Dimension | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Marble, Dimension | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Marble, Dimension | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Marble, Dimension | Occurrence | ||
| Clara B. prospect | Gold | Prospect | ||
| Cooper Creek adit | Gold | Prospect |
Storms near this place
1 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodedge in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodedge | - | Wyoming Department of Transportation sensor at Cooper Cove along Interstate 80 measured the reported wind. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morrisey (historical) | 2.1 miles | 17 | |
| Arlington | 6.3 miles | 13 | |
| McFadden | 9.5 miles | 11 | |
| Old Brooks Place | 15.6 miles | 11 | |
| Widdowfield (historical) | 15.9 miles | 12 | |
| Milo | 16.2 miles | 12 | |
| Elk Mountain | 18.4 miles | 11 | |
| Ivans Grove (historical) | 19.6 miles | 16 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122561687 | 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 1604284. 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.







