Yanceys, Wyoming

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Yellowstone National Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82190. It stands on Lost Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tower Junction quadrangle. It stands 6,237 feet above sea level.

Yanceys within Park County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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.

1886 USGS Canyon quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Canyon quadrangle1:125000
1896 USGS Canyon quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1901 USGS Canyon quadrangle1:125000
1907 USGS Canyon quadrangle1:125000
1911 USGS Canyon quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1955 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Tower Junction quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1960 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Yellowstone National Park North quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Tower Junction quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Yanceys between 1992 and 2020, burning about 18,466 acres in total. 19 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	19
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	1
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
4 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	PETRIFIED
23 September 1992	Natural	480 acres	Yellowstone National Park	PLATEAU
7 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	JUNCTION
7 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	COYOTE
6 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	BUFFALO
31 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	SCORCHED
30 August 1996	Natural	2.0 acres	Yellowstone National Park	LOST CREEK
26 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	PROSPECT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Tower Junction	1.4 miles	24
Buffalo Ford	3.1 miles	24
Bannock Ford	4.1 miles	24
Canyon Junction	13.8 miles	22
Canyon Village	13.9 miles	22
Mammoth	14.4 miles	20
Soda Butte (historical)	15.4 miles	21
Pahaska Tepee	38.7 miles	19

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 Yanceys	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8048292	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 1597553. 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.