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Baggs, Wyoming

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Rawlins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82321. It stands on Muddy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Baggs quadrangle. 411 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,247 feet above sea level.

Baggs within Carbon County

On record in Baggs

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Baggs fell from 440 to 411 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
2010440
2020411-29 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Baggs between 1994 and 2020, burning about 687 acres in total. 9 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural9
Firearms and explosives use1
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCarbon CountyDAD
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCarbon CountyMILEPOST 24 WY. 789
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresCarbon CountyDUNCAN RANCH
4 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRawlins Field Office5MILE PT
24 August 2013Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, CraigHEDGES
19 August 2017Firearms and explosives use281 acresNorthwest District, CraigPOLE
19 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresCarbon CountyUNKNOWN
1 August 2020Natural16 acresMoffat CountySTATELINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Baggs: 6 unknowns, 4 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Gold, Silver. 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
Rock Springs Placer Co. MineGold, SilverPast Producer1891, 1892
Snake River placersGoldOccurrence
Pit #1UraniumPast Producer
Pit #11UraniumPast Producer
UnknownUraniumUnknown
Corson WilsonSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this place

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baggs in 1 storm report in 2005: 1 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
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBaggs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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
Dixon6.5 miles13
Savery11.0 miles16
Tullis23.2 miles16
Dexterville (historical)27.5 miles17
Copperton (historical)29.3 miles16
Dillon (historical)31.5 miles16
Rudefeha (historical)32.8 miles16
Rambler (historical)35.5 miles16

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 BaggsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1028049The 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 1585049. 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.