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.
Population over time
3 figuresAlbin 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 160 | |
| 2010 | 181 | |
| 2020 | 169 | -12 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Cheyenne quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Cheyenne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Cheyenne quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1991 USGS Albin quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
6 since 2016Regional 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/distribution | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Laramie County | 215 FIRE |
| 4 July 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Laramie County | HWY 215 AND ROAD 227 |
| 24 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Laramie County | 215 FIRE |
| 17 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Laramie County | 216 FIRE |
| 24 April 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Laramie County | SMITHFIELD ALPINE FIRE |
| 18 October 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
60 of 73 shownRegional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1996 | Hail | Albin | $1,000,000 | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Albin | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Albin | - | Trained spotter estimated 60 mph winds in Albin. |
| August 2024 | Hail | Albin | - | Public report of quarter sized hail 9 miles southwest of Albin. |
| August 2024 | Hail | Albin | - | Storm chaser reported 1.8 inch hail 10 miles south of Albin via Spotter Network. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Albin | - | A portion of the roof of a manufactured building was torn off by strong wind gusts approximately 2 miles southeast of Albin. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Albin | - | A trained weather spotter reported dime to quarter sized hail in Albin. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Albin | - | Trained spotter reported lime to tennis ball size hail west of Albin. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Albin | - | Received report from mPING. |
| June 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Albin | - | A confirmed brief tornado overturned a pivot on CR 215 approximately 8 miles SSE of Albin. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Albin | - | Union Pacific Railroad mesonet station LNDBRG (UR343) measured wind gust. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Albin | - | Observed reported the hail via Spotter Network. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Albin | - | 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 2018 | Hail | Albin | - | Golf ball size hail was observed at Highway 216 mile post 67. |
| May 2018 | Flash Flood | Albin | - | Flash flooding was observed south of Albin with water flowing over County Roads 160 and 227. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Albin | - | Quarter size hail was observed at Albin. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Albin | - | Golf ball size hail was reported five miles north of Albin. |
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | Albin | - | 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 2014 | Hail | Albin | - | Quarter size hail was observed at Albin. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Albin | - | Quarter to half dollar size hail was observed one mile east of the junction of US Highway 85 and County Road 216. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Albin | - | Nickel to quarter size hail was reported west of Albin. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Albin | - | Quarter size hail was reported at the junction of US Highway 85 and County Road 216. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Albin | - | Golf ball size hail was observed two miles east of US Highway 85 on Albin Road. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Albin | - | Quarter size hail was observed 14 miles west of Albin. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Albin | - | Quarter size hail was observed nine miles west of Albin. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Albin | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph west of Albin. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Albin | - | Quarter size hail was reported in Albin. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Albin | - | Penny to quarter size hail was reported southeast of Gun Barrel. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Albin | - | Quarter to ping pong ball size hail was reported southwest of Albin. |
| July 2011 | Flash Flood | Albin | - | More than six inches of water was observed over Highway 215 between County Roads 222 and 223. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Albin | - | Tennis ball sized hail along with 1.5 inches of rainfall. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Albin | - | Nickel to quarter sized hail observed. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Albin | - | Dime sized hail lasted 30 minutes. A total of 1.3 inches of liquid equivilent rainfall fell. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Albin | - | Mostly smaller, and rather soft hail. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Albin | - | 3/4 to 1 inch diameter hail reported. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Albin | - | Hail up to 6 inches deep was reported 5 miles northeast of Albin. |
| May 1997 | Hail | Albin | - | Hail three quarters of an inch in diameter fell one mile south of Albin, badly damaging 10 to 12 sections of cropland. |
| July 1994 | Hail | Albin | - | 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 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Albin | - | 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 2023 | Hail | Albin | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Hail | Albin | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | Albin | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Albin | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Albin | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Albin | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Albin | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Albin | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Albin | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Albin | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Albin | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Albin | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Albin | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Albin | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Albin | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Albin | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Albin | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Albin | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Albin | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Albin | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Albin | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Albin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1029768 | The 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.



