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Albin, Wyoming

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Pine Bluffs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82050. The Survey maps it on the Albin quadrangle. 169 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,338 feet above sea level.

Albin within Laramie County

Population over time

3 figures

Albin grew from 160 to 169 between 1940 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
1940160
2010181
2020169-12 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

6 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Albin between 2016 and 2020, burning about 14 acres in total. None 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1

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
24 August 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresLaramie County215 FIRE
4 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresLaramie CountyHWY 215 AND ROAD 227
24 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresLaramie County215 FIRE
17 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresLaramie County216 FIRE
24 April 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreLaramie CountySMITHFIELD ALPINE FIRE
18 October 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Laramie County

Storms near this place

60 of 73 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Albin in 73 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 62 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
July 1996HailAlbin$1,000,000no account filed
August 1996HailAlbin$50,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindAlbin-Trained spotter estimated 60 mph winds in Albin.
August 2024HailAlbin-Public report of quarter sized hail 9 miles southwest of Albin.
August 2024HailAlbin-Storm chaser reported 1.8 inch hail 10 miles south of Albin via Spotter Network.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindAlbin-A portion of the roof of a manufactured building was torn off by strong wind gusts approximately 2 miles southeast of Albin.
May 2023HailAlbin-A trained weather spotter reported dime to quarter sized hail in Albin.
June 2023HailAlbin-Trained spotter reported lime to tennis ball size hail west of Albin.
June 2023HailAlbin-Received report from mPING.
June 2023Tornado (EF0)Albin-A confirmed brief tornado overturned a pivot on CR 215 approximately 8 miles SSE of Albin.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindAlbin-Union Pacific Railroad mesonet station LNDBRG (UR343) measured wind gust.
May 2020HailAlbin-Observed reported the hail via Spotter Network.
June 2019HailAlbin-Hail was significant enough to cover several inches deep on area roadways and causing area drainage ditches to run full with its combination of heavy rainfall.
July 2018HailAlbin-Golf ball size hail was observed at Highway 216 mile post 67.
May 2018Flash FloodAlbin-Flash flooding was observed south of Albin with water flowing over County Roads 160 and 227.
May 2017HailAlbin-Quarter size hail was observed at Albin.
June 2017HailAlbin-Golf ball size hail was reported five miles north of Albin.
July 2015Flash FloodAlbin-Torrential rainfall from thunderstorms produced up to six inches of rain in three hours, which resulted in flash flooding. County Road 162 and Highway 216 were closed by high water. Highway 216 was closed between Albin and Pine Bluffs with a foot of water over the highway. Several roads in and surrounding Albin were closed.
May 2014HailAlbin-Quarter size hail was observed at Albin.
June 2014HailAlbin-Quarter to half dollar size hail was observed one mile east of the junction of US Highway 85 and County Road 216.
July 2014HailAlbin-Nickel to quarter size hail was reported west of Albin.
June 2014HailAlbin-Quarter size hail was reported at the junction of US Highway 85 and County Road 216.
June 2014HailAlbin-Golf ball size hail was observed two miles east of US Highway 85 on Albin Road.
June 2014HailAlbin-Quarter size hail was observed 14 miles west of Albin.
June 2014HailAlbin-Quarter size hail was observed nine miles west of Albin.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindAlbin-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph west of Albin.
July 2013HailAlbin-Quarter size hail was reported in Albin.
July 2013HailAlbin-Penny to quarter size hail was reported southeast of Gun Barrel.
June 2013HailAlbin-Quarter to ping pong ball size hail was reported southwest of Albin.
July 2011Flash FloodAlbin-More than six inches of water was observed over Highway 215 between County Roads 222 and 223.
June 2010HailAlbin-Tennis ball sized hail along with 1.5 inches of rainfall.
June 2010HailAlbin-Nickel to quarter sized hail observed.
May 2010HailAlbin-Dime sized hail lasted 30 minutes. A total of 1.3 inches of liquid equivilent rainfall fell.
July 2007HailAlbin-Mostly smaller, and rather soft hail.
May 2005HailAlbin-3/4 to 1 inch diameter hail reported.
May 1998HailAlbin-Hail up to 6 inches deep was reported 5 miles northeast of Albin.
May 1997HailAlbin-Hail three quarters of an inch in diameter fell one mile south of Albin, badly damaging 10 to 12 sections of cropland.
July 1994HailAlbin-A super-cell developed in southeastern Goshen County early in the evening of the 17th and moved south across extreme eastern Laramie County. Large hail and damaging winds were observed with the storm which broke out all the windows on the north side of a home north of Pine Bluffs. Hail up to the size of baseballs produced significant damage to a mobile home park east of Pine Bluffs. Winds from the storm blew down several power poles in Albin cutting off power there.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindAlbin-A super-cell developed in southeastern Goshen County early in the evening of the 17th and moved south across extreme eastern Laramie County. Large hail and damaging winds were observed with the storm which broke out all the windows on the north side of a home north of Pine Bluffs. Hail up to the size of baseballs produced significant damage to a mobile home park east of Pine Bluffs. Winds from the storm blew down several power poles in Albin cutting off power there.
June 2023HailAlbin-no account filed
June 2023HailAlbin-no account filed
July 2021HailAlbin-no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindAlbin-no account filed
August 2019HailAlbin-no account filed
August 2018HailAlbin-no account filed
June 2018HailAlbin-no account filed
June 2011HailAlbin-no account filed
July 2011HailAlbin-no account filed
June 2010HailAlbin-no account filed
May 2010HailAlbin-no account filed
July 2009HailAlbin-no account filed
July 2009HailAlbin-no account filed
June 2006HailAlbin-no account filed
June 2006HailAlbin-no account filed
June 2006HailAlbin-no account filed
July 2005HailAlbin-no account filed
August 2003HailAlbin-no account filed
June 2003HailAlbin-no account filed
June 2003HailAlbin-no account filed
April 2002HailAlbin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Laramie 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
Tremain9.3 miles13
Meriden14.6 miles12
Pine Bluffs16.3 miles12
Tracy18.9 miles8
Egbert19.1 miles9
Burns20.8 miles9
Hillsdale24.6 miles8
Arcola29.0 miles9

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 AlbinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1029768The 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 1584728. 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.

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.