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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.

Bairoil within Sweetwater County

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.

Population over time

2 figures

Bairoil 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.

YearPeople Change
2010106
202068-38 (-36%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

10 since 1994

Regional 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
Natural5
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
15 August 2007Naturalunder an acreLander Field OfficeWHISKEY PEAK
15 August 1994Natural1.5 acresRawlins Field OfficeBAIROIL
18 July 1998Naturalunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeWHISKEY #2
16 July 2000Natural3.0 acresRawlins Field OfficeELK
4 June 2012Naturalunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeABLE CREEK FIRE
3 March 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeBAIROIL
10 December 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeBAIROIL 2
29 October 2003Smokingunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named

Every fire recorded in Sweetwater County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Black EagleUraniumUnknown
C & L ClaimsUraniumProspect
DiehlUraniumUnknown
HaysUraniumProspect
Lost SoldierUraniumProspect
UnknownUraniumOccurrence
UnknownUraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Sweetwater County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2018Flash FloodBairoil-Flooding was reported in rural eastern Sweetwater County. No damage was reported.

Every storm recorded in Sweetwater 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
Riner35.1 miles10
Creston Junction36.8 miles10
Creston38.7 miles10
Rocky Crossing42.0 miles10
Wamsutter45.3 miles11
Red Desert50.5 miles8
Tipton56.6 miles7
Robinson59.0 miles7

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 BairoilAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1028958The 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.