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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.

Big Horn within Sheridan County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Big 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.

YearPeople Change
2010490
2020457-33 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

53 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined27
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
29 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
18 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresSheridan CountyUPPER ROAD
17 September 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresSheridan CountyBISHER FIRE
8 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.7 acresBuffalo Field OfficeMILE MARKER 28
7 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
31 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
3 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
25 August 2020Naturalunder an acreSheridan CountyKRUSE CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sheridan County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownUraniumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sheridan County

Storms near this place

16 since 2008

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2018Thunderstorm WindBig Horn-There were reports of many Cottonwood trees down with some on homes.
June 2015Flash FloodBig 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 2011Thunderstorm WindBig Horn-Numerous tree limbs were broken.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindBig Horn-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 mph resulted in large branches being broken off during a 20 minute period.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindBig Horn-no account filed
July 2023HailBig Horn-no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBig Horn-no account filed
July 2019HailBig Horn-no account filed
July 2019HailBig Horn-no account filed
July 2019HailBig Horn-no account filed
July 2018HailBig Horn-no account filed
May 2018HailBig Horn-no account filed
August 2015HailBig Horn-no account filed
May 2013HailBig Horn-no account filed
July 2008HailBig Horn-no account filed
June 2008HailBig Horn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheridan 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
Powder Horn1.4 miles13
Sheridan8.1 miles13
Beckton8.6 miles17
Banner8.8 miles13
Story9.4 miles12
Wolf14.4 miles15
Wyarno14.6 miles12
Kleenburn15.2 miles15

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 HornAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1942272The 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.