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State Highway Department Gravel Pit

Past Producer in Sweetwater county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Sand and Gravel, Construction
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10254714
MAS/MILS ID 560370233
Record type Site
Current site name State Highway Department Gravel Pit

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Pit
Geographic coordinates: -108.53086, 41.646 (WGS84)
Elevation 2103
Location accuracy 2000(meters)
Relative position Gravel Pit shown on topo is visible on satellite imagery. However, there is also a scraped area visible on imagery approx. 1,700 m to the east (also N of the Interstate) that could have been the pit intended by CR-2.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sweetwater(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bitter Creek NE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Red Desert Basin(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rock Springs(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Bitter(hydrologic unit)

Upper Green(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Divide-Upper Green(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management WY)

Bureau of Land Management WY BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Sweetwater

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 19N 99W 2 SW of SE Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • A.B. Wilson moved coordinates approx. 2,000 m SW to gravel pit on topo. There is another scraped area approx. 1,700 m to the east (also north of the Interstate) that could have been the intended pit on CR-2.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Nearby scientific data

Pit (1) -108.53086, 41.646
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • No current operation visible on 2011 satellite imagery. Changed status from producer to past producer. Site is no longer active.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Location

    USGS, 1976, Bitter Creek NE 1:24,000 topo map.

  • Deposit

    ROOT ET AL 1973 WYO GEOL SURV CR-2

  • Deposit

    STATE OF WYO HIGHWAY DEPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2011-11-23 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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