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Atlantic City, Wyoming

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Lander census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82520. It lies near Anthony Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Atlantic City quadrangle. 54 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,694 feet above sea level.

Atlantic City within Fremont County

On record in Atlantic City

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Atlantic City grew from 37 to 54 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
201037
202054+17 (+46%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

42 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Atlantic City between 1994 and 2020, burning about 28 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 1 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
Natural13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony11
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreShoshone National ForestBEAVER CREEK
27 September 2010Recreation and ceremony2.1 acresLander Field OfficeMARY ANN
27 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.3 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
25 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreShoshone National ForestWILLOW
2 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLander Field OfficeATLANTIC
19 September 2014Natural1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
19 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLander Field OfficeROCK CREEK
13 September 1997Naturalunder an acreShoshone National ForestSLATE CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Atlantic City: 20 past producers, 6 occurrences, 3 producers, 2 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Sulfur-Pyrite, Arsenic, Iron. 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
Atlantic City DistrictGold, TungstenPast ProducerGold, Scheelite
Carissa MineGold, Arsenic, NickelPast Producer1850
Copper Chief Gold MineGold, GarnetOccurrence
Duncan MineGold, SilverPast Producer
May and Jump ClaimsCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrence
Mechanic &Emerald LodeSulfur-Pyrite, CopperOccurrence
Miners Delight MineGold, GraphitePast ProducerGold
Rock Creek PlacersGold, Silver, Copper, Platinum, MicaProducerStream Placer
Sixty Seven Mile Pit BlmSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
South Pass MinesTungstenOccurrenceScheelite

Every working recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this place

5 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Atlantic City in 5 storm reports between 2023 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2026Thunderstorm WindAtlantic City-A maximum wind gust of 83 mph was reported along Red Canyon along Highway 28.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindAtlantic City-Wind gusts as high as 75 mph occurred at Red Canyon along Highway 28.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindAtlantic City-Wind gusts as high as 65 mph occurred at Red Canyon along Wyoming 28 over South Pass.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindAtlantic City-Wind gusts as high as 80 mph occurred in Red Canyon along Highway 28 in South Pass.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindAtlantic City-A second round of thunderstorms moved across southern Fremont County and brought a second round a high wind. The highest wind gust occurred at Beaver Rim along South Pass where a maximum wind gust of 89 mph.

Every storm recorded in Fremont 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
Miners Delight3.7 miles12
South Pass City4.2 miles13
Erramouspe Place6.7 miles13
Last Crossing Ford Number 98.4 miles10
Kotey Place17.1 miles11
Lander23.2 miles12
Wyopo24.9 miles12
Milford26.4 miles10

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 Atlantic CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q756346The 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 1584989. 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.