State Highway Department Gravel Pit

Past Producer in Sweetwater county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Sand and Gravel, Construction
Sections on this page
  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. Bibliographic references
  10. General comments
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10400623
Record type Site
Current site name State Highway Department Gravel Pit

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Pit
Geographic coordinates: -107.676, 41.727 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position Large gravel pit on topo and visibile on satellite imagery corresponds with approx. location shown on CR-2.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sweetwater(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Creston Junction(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rawlins(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rawlins(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Great Divide Closed Basin(hydrologic unit)

Great Divide Closed Basin(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 20N 091W 8 N2 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Nearby scientific data

Pit (1) -107.676, 41.727

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Location

    Root, Glass and Lane, 1973, Sweetwater County, Wyoming: County Resource Series CR-2.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
General Gravel pit covers most of the northern half of Sec. 8.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 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.