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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.

Woodedge within Carbon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

8 since 1994

Regional 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
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
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
31 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCarbon CountyMM278.2
24 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined21 acresCarbon CountyRINGSLEY
24 August 2017Natural1.0 acresRawlins Field OfficeMISTERLY
2 August 2000Natural1.5 acresMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandMORGAN
3 July 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandROCK CREEK
21 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeWOODEDGE
18 July 2003Naturalunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeCOOPER MTN
11 July 1994Naturalunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeCOOPER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Albion MineSilver, Copper, Lead, Gold, ZincOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Chalcocite, Bornite, Galena
Cooper Hill DistrictGold, Silver, Lead, CopperPast ProducerPyrite, Chalcopyrite, Chalcocite, Galena, Polybasite, Gold, Malachite, Cerrusite, Limonite, Bornite, Chrysocolla
Silver Queen MineCopper, GoldProspectChalcopyrite, Cuprite, Malachite, Chrysocolla, Limonite
Medicine Bow Mountains Area (marble)Marble, DimensionProspect
UnknownMarble, DimensionOccurrence
UnknownMarble, DimensionOccurrence
UnknownMarble, DimensionOccurrence
UnknownMarble, DimensionOccurrence
Clara B. prospectGoldProspect
Cooper Creek aditGoldProspect

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2019Thunderstorm WindWoodedge-Wyoming Department of Transportation sensor at Cooper Cove along Interstate 80 measured the reported wind.

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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
Morrisey (historical)2.1 miles17
Arlington6.3 miles13
McFadden9.5 miles11
Old Brooks Place15.6 miles11
Widdowfield (historical)15.9 miles12
Milo16.2 miles12
Elk Mountain18.4 miles11
Ivans Grove (historical)19.6 miles16

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 Q122561687The 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.