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. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10133357
MAS/MILS ID 560370188
Record type Site
Current site name State Highway Department Gravel Pit

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -109.77031, 41.21403 (WGS84)
Elevation 2057
Location accuracy 2000(meters)
Relative position Location uncertain. CR-2 shows pit east of McKinnon Road (Hwy 4), but remants of what may have been a pit are west of the road.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sweetwater(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Black Spring Reservoir(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Firehole Canyon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rock Springs(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Green-Flaming Gorge Reservoir(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 14N 100W 12 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -109.77031, 41.21403

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 Federal

Comments on the production information

  • No current operation visible on 2011 satellite imagery. Changed status from producer to past producer.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROOT ET AL 1973,WYO GEOL SURVEY CR-2

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-23 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2011-11-25 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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