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Barnum, Wyoming

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Kaycee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82639. It stands on Blue Creek. The Survey maps it on the Barnum quadrangle. It stands 5,177 feet above sea level.

Barnum within Johnson County

On record in Barnum

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Barnum between 1995 and 2020, burning about 79 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
Natural9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning1

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
7 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
30 August 2017Naturalunder an acreBuffalo Field OfficeSOUTH PASTURE
2 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBuffalo Field OfficeSILAGE PIT
2 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
1 August 2005Natural10 acresBuffalo Field OfficePOISON WEE
5 July 1996Natural10 acresCasper Field OfficeHORSE PAST
20 July 2017Naturalunder an acreBuffalo Field OfficeCOMMISSIONER
18 July 2002Naturalunder an acreCasper Field OfficeWILDMAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Barnum: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Bentonite, 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
Jarris-Marie #1UraniumOccurrence
South Kaycee MineBentoniteProducer

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

17 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barnum in 17 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 7 hail, 5 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
June 2023Flash FloodBarnum-See episode for a description.
September 2023Flash FloodBarnum-Reports to Sheriffs office of minor flooding across some of the dirt roads in southwestern portions of Johnson county.
June 2023HailBarnum-A supercell thunderstorm developed in the lee of the Bighorn range and brought large hail from Barnum to Kaycee. Hail the size of baseballs fell near Barnum with quarter size hail reported in Kaycee.
June 2022HailBarnum-A trained spotter reported quarter size hail near Barnum, WY.
May 2019FloodBarnum-NCRS employees reported minor to moderate flooding along the Middle Fork of the Powder River downstream from Barnum. The flooding remained over rural areas and caused no damage.
July 2019HailBarnum-A strong thunderstorm dropped penny sized hail in the vicinity of Barnum.
June 2017HailBarnum-A thunderstorm developed along the east side of the Bighorn Range and slowly strengthened. The storm became a supercell and dropped very large hail from Barnum to Kaycee. There were widespread reports of quarter size or bigger hail along the path. The largest report of hail was tennis ball size 5 miles southwest of Kaycee, not far from where a tornado developed. Hail up to the size of ping pong balls was reported in Barnum.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindBarnum-The Poker Creek RAWS site registered a wind gust to 59 mph.
July 2013Flash FloodBarnum-Heavy rain fell in and around Barnum producing minor flash flooding. Some mud and debris was deposited by the flood on Barnum Road, which was removed by a county grading crew. Beaver Creek overflowed its banks and flooded a few ranch fields. The inundation of water caused a five foot rise in about two hours on the Middle Fork of the Powder River.
July 2013HailBarnum-Penny sized hail was reported at a ranch south of Barnum.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindBarnum-Wind gusts estimated at 75 to 80 mph blew down several trees along the Bar C Ranch Road from Barnum to the Bar C Ranch.
July 2011Flash FloodBarnum-The public reported 1.9 of rain at the Blue Creek Ranch near Barnum. The creek was out of its banks and flooding property at the ranch. The creek was reportedly carrying a significant amount of debris out of a nearby canyon.
June 2010HailBarnum-One inch diameter hail was reported with a severe thunderstorm that formed along the southeast Bighorn Mountains.
June 2009Funnel CloudBarnum-Members of a Washakie County Road and Bridge crew observed a funnel cloud over the Big Horn Mountains west of Barnum. The crew was working near Cherry Creek Road in southeast Washakie County and observed the storm from the west.
June 2023FloodBarnum-no account filed
May 2000HailBarnum-no account filed
June 1997Flash FloodBarnum-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Mayoworth13.1 miles6
Kaycee14.7 miles6
Linstead Place21.3 miles6
Hazelton30.0 miles12
Sussex32.7 miles6
Sussex Unit37.7 miles7
Linch38.0 miles7
Buffalo48.5 miles12

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 BarnumAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19460377The 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 1597214. 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.