Big Horn, Wyoming
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Sheridan South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82801. It stands on Kusel Creek. The Survey maps it on the Big Horn quadrangle. 457 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,062 feet above sea level.
On record in Big Horn
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
Odd Fellows Halllisted 1980- Johnson Street Historic Districtlisted 1984
- Quarter Circle A Ranchlisted 1976
Population over time
2 figuresBig Horn fell from 490 to 457 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 | 490 | |
| 2020 | 457 | -33 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1909 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1911 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Big Horn quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1979 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
53 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Big Horn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 135 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined | 27 |
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 18 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Sheridan County | UPPER ROAD |
| 17 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Sheridan County | BISHER FIRE |
| 8 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.7 acres | Buffalo Field Office | MILE MARKER 28 |
| 7 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 31 August 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 3 August 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 25 August 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Sheridan County | KRUSE CREEK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Big Horn: 1 past producer. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Uranium | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
16 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Big Horn in 16 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 10 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Big Horn | - | There were reports of many Cottonwood trees down with some on homes. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Big Horn | - | A heavy, slow-moving thunderstorm resulted in flash flooding to portions of western Sheridan County. Highway 14 had water flowing across it at mile marker 84 1/2 resulting in the highway being closed. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Big Horn | - | Numerous tree limbs were broken. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Big Horn | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 mph resulted in large branches being broken off during a 20 minute period. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Big Horn | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Big Horn | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Big Horn | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Big Horn | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Big Horn | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Big Horn | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Hail | Big Horn | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Big Horn | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Big Horn | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Big Horn | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Big Horn | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Big Horn | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Big Horn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1942272 | 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 1585474. 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.






