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Albany, Wyoming

14 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 82070. The Survey maps it on the Albany quadrangle. 31 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 8,327 feet above sea level.

Albany within Albany County

On record in Albany

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Albany fell from 55 to 31 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201055
202031-24 (-44%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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.

Fires near this place

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Albany between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,692 acres in total. 12 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
Recreation and ceremony17
Natural12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland305
3 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandROAD 305
17 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandHOGBACK
11 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grasslandnot named
10 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandBROOMSTICK
6 August 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandSTRAIN CREEK #2
6 August 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandSTRAIN CREEK
6 August 2001Naturalunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandLOST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Albany County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Albany: 9 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Gold, Iron, Platinum, Palladium, Copper, Silver, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lake Owen ComplexIron, Titanium, Metal, Silver, Cobalt, Nickel, PGE, Gold, Copper, VanadiumOccurrenceMagnetite, Ilmenite
Lincoln GulchGold, PlatinumProducerStream Placer
UnknownManganeseProspect
UnknownAluminumOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectPlatinum, Palladium, Copper, Silver, GoldOccurrenceGold
Unnamed ProspectZinc, Palladium, PlatinumOccurrenceSphalerite
Unidentified OccurrenceIronOccurrenceMagnetite
Hub Load ClaimGoldProspect
Hub Lode ClaimGoldOccurrenceGold
UnknownUraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Albany County

Storms near this place

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Albany in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 2 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2022Flash FloodAlbany$76,380Heavy rainfall and hail resulting in creek flooding near Lake Owen on the eastern side of the Mullen Burn Scar. Fox Creek Road between Albany and Woods Landing flooded and was closed after a 5 mile stretch was washed out. Road damage of $76,381 was reported with this flash flood.
August 2013HailAlbany-Dime to quarter size hail was reported northwest of Albany.
August 1993HailAlbany-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Albany 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Deerwood3.6 miles14
Collins (historical)5.4 miles17
Keystone6.8 miles17
Foxpark7.3 miles17
Centennial7.9 miles17
Woods Landing8.1 miles16
New Jelm9.6 miles16
Gramm10.1 miles17

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 AlbanyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1949610The 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 1597700. 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.