BlockArapahoe, Wyoming
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Wind River Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82501. It stands on Popo Agie River. The Survey maps it on the Arapahoe quadrangle. 1,612 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,003 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresArapahoe fell from 1,656 to 1,612 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,656 | |
| 2020 | 1,612 | -44 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1953 USGS Arapahoe quadrangle1:24000
- 1955 USGS Lander quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Lander quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Arapahoe quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Lander quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Lander quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
309 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 309 fires within 5 miles of Arapahoe between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,675 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 134 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 81 |
| Fireworks | 34 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 23 |
| Smoking | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Other causes | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2012 | Smoking | 1.7 acres | Wind River Agency | RIVER BOTTOM |
| 5 September 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.2 acres | Wind River Agency | RENDEZVOUS |
| 5 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wind River Agency | #2 LEFT HAND DITCH |
| 30 September 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Wind River Agency | OLD ANNEX |
| 3 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wind River Agency | 568 RENDEVOUS RD |
| 3 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wind River Agency | THREE BARREL |
| 28 September 2009 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 26 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wind River Agency | 1457 17 MILE RD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arapahoe in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2017: 1 funnel cloud, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2017 | Flood | Arapahoe | - | Rain and rapid snow melt brought flooding along the Little Wind River. The most notable flooding was on the Wind River Reservation near Arapahoe. The water surrounded several homes along the River Bank, however, sandbagging efforts were successful and little property damage was noted. |
| May 2008 | Funnel Cloud | Arapahoe | - | Several reports were received of a funnel cloud south of Riverton near the Beaver Creek natural gas field. |
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 Arapahoe | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1942065 | 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 1584915. 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.