Woods Landing, Wyoming
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the South Albany census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82063. It stands on Woods Creek. The Survey maps it on the Woods Landing quadrangle.
On record in Woods Landing
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 3 records
N. K. Boswell Ranchlisted 1977
Woods Landing Dance Halllisted 1985- Jelm-Frank Smith Ranch Historic Districtlisted 1978
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 16 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.
- 1906 USGS Medicine Bow quadrangle1:125000
- 1908 USGS Medicine Bow quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Woods Landing quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Saratoga quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
- 1992 USGS Woods Landing quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
26 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Woods Landing between 1994 and 2018, burning about 12,023 acres in total. 15 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 | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2001 | Smoking | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | LITTLE |
| 11 September 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | not named |
| 1 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Rawlins Field Office | WOODSLANDI |
| 6 August 2001 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | BOOGER |
| 4 August 1994 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | not named |
| 17 August 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | JELM CREEK |
| 17 August 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | JELM |
| 15 August 1996 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | IRON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 16 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Woods Landing: 6 occurrences, 4 prospects, 4 past producers, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Gold, Copper, Iron, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado Mine | Gold, Copper, Iron, Lead, Silver | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Copper, Galena, Silver | |
| Jelm Mountain | Copper, Gold, Bismuth | Prospect | contact vein | |
| Jelm Mountain District | Copper, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Bismuth, Molybdenum | Past Producer | 1870 | |
| Lake Owen Complex | Iron, Titanium, Metal, Silver, Cobalt, Nickel, PGE, Gold, Copper, Vanadium | Occurrence | Magnetite, Ilmenite | |
| Unknown | Niobium (Columbium) | Prospect | ||
| Unknown | Manganese | Prospect | ||
| Annie Mine | Gold, Copper | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Gold | |
| Unidentified Occurrence | Iron | Occurrence | Magnetite | |
| Unidentified Prospect | Copper | Occurrence | Copper | |
| Unidentified Prospect | Copper | Occurrence | Copper |
Storms near this place
5 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woods Landing in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2021: 5 flash 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Woods Landing | - | Heavy rainfall over portions of the Mullen Burn Scar with estimated rainfall of two to three inches. Subsequent mudslide and debris flow led to a road washout near Highway 230. The Woods Landing Resort also had nearby stream rise out of its bank with water on area campgrounds and a few inches of water were reported in the resort kitchen. |
| July 2018 | Flash Flood | Woods Landing | - | Excessive rainfall in 60 minutes over the Badger Creek burn scar caused debris flow/flash flooding along the Laramie River at Jelm/Woods Landing. |
| July 2018 | Flash Flood | Woods Landing | - | Locally heavy rain in less than 30 minutes over the Badger Creek burn scar led to mud and debris flows across Highway 230 near Woods Landing. |
| May 2014 | Flash Flood | Woods Landing | - | Flash flooding washed out Back River Road and Boswell Ranch Road near Woods Landing. |
| September 2013 | Flash Flood | Woods Landing | - | Two to three inches of rain in a 90-minute period flooded Highway 311/47. Several area streams in central and southern portions of the Squirrel Creek burn scar were running bankfull. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1604288. 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.









