Bairoil, Wyoming
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Wamsutter census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82322. It stands on Reed Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bairoil quadrangle. 68 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,877 feet above sea level.
On record in Bairoil
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Bairoil Town Halllisted 2015 · 0.1 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresBairoil fell from 106 to 68 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 | 106 | |
| 2020 | 68 | -38 (-36%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1955 USGS Casper quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Casper quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Bairoil quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Casper quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Bairoil quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Casper quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
10 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Bairoil between 1994 and 2020, burning about 7 acres in total. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 5 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Lander Field Office | WHISKEY PEAK |
| 15 August 1994 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Rawlins Field Office | BAIROIL |
| 18 July 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | WHISKEY #2 |
| 16 July 2000 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Rawlins Field Office | ELK |
| 4 June 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | ABLE CREEK FIRE |
| 3 March 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | BAIROIL |
| 10 December 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | BAIROIL 2 |
| 29 October 2003 | Smoking | under an acre | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Bairoil: 3 prospects, 2 unknowns, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Eagle | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| C & L Claims | Uranium | Prospect | ||
| Diehl | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Hays | Uranium | Prospect | ||
| Lost Soldier | Uranium | Prospect | ||
| Unknown | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Uranium | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
1 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bairoil in 1 storm report in 2018: 1 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2018 | Flash Flood | Bairoil | - | Flooding was reported in rural eastern Sweetwater County. No damage was reported. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riner | 35.1 miles | 10 | |
| Creston Junction | 36.8 miles | 10 | |
| Creston | 38.7 miles | 10 | |
| Rocky Crossing | 42.0 miles | 10 | |
| Wamsutter | 45.3 miles | 11 | |
| Red Desert | 50.5 miles | 8 | |
| Tipton | 56.6 miles | 7 | |
| Robinson | 59.0 miles | 7 |
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 Bairoil | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1028958 | 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 1585058. 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.





