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Bill, Wyoming

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Douglas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82633. The Survey maps it on the Bill quadrangle. It stands 4,708 feet above sea level.

Bill within Converse County

On record in Bill

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 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

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Bill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,222 acres in total. 12 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
Natural12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 2009Natural3.2 acresMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandSHELDON
4 September 2009Natural2.5 acresMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandSHELDON DRAW
4 September 1995Natural34 acresMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandSEEBAUM
2 September 2001Natural150 acresMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandJR STODDARD #2
17 September 2018Railroad operations and maintenance3,782 acresMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandWEST TILLARD FIRE
13 September 2018Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandMM 33 FIRE
5 August 2000Natural4.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
4 August 2018Natural5.0 acresMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandBAUER FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Converse County

Storms near this place

55 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bill in 55 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 43 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 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
March 2019Flash FloodBill$10,000An earthen dam near the Fiddle Back Ranch failed causing the release of water that washed out the nearby intersection of Dull Center and Lynch Road. The released water eventually made it downstream into the Cheyenne River causing the level to rise to the top of the river bank.
July 1998HailBill$4,000A storm produced golfball size hail 7 miles east of Bill.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBill-Upper Missouri River Basin Station at Bill 8NE recorded severe wind gust.
June 2023HailBill-Half-dollar sized hail was reported by a trained spotter located approximately 10 miles north of Bill.
July 2023HailBill-Public reported golfball sized hail in and around Bill.
July 2023HailBill-Social media report of 1 inch hail and damage to trees, plants and a broken window.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBill-Spotter estimated 50 to 60 mph wind gusts.
June 2023HailBill-The public measured hail up to 2.5 inches in diameter 16 miles SSE of Bill.
June 2023HailBill-The public measured hail up to 2.5 inches in diameter 12 miles SSE of Bill.
August 2022HailBill-Received video on social media of ping pong to golf ball size hail with accumulating hail along State Highway 59 south of Bill.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBill-RAWS station RHKW4 - Rochelle Hills reported wind gust.
June 2019Tornado (EF0)Bill-Wyoming State Highway Patrol reported tornado on the outskirts of Bill with corresponding video confirmation of a visible condensation funnel east of the hotel in town. A later report via social media presented photographic evidence of tornadic damage to a manufactured home east-southeast of Bill with a corner of the roof peeled off consistent with EF-0 damage.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindBill-Observer noted dime size hail and heavy rainfall.
July 2018HailBill-Heavy rains associated with the storm flooded basement along with hail breaking two windows.
July 2018HailBill-Quarter size hail was observed northeast of Bill.
June 2016HailBill-Quarter size hail was reported at Bill.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBill-Estimated 65 mph wind gusts were reported at Bill.
July 2016HailBill-Quarter size hail was reported a mile east of Dull Center.
July 2015HailBill-Quarter size hail was observed ten miles east of Bill.
August 2015HailBill-Quarter size hail was observed 15 miles west of Bill.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindBill-Estimated wind gusts of 55 to 60 mph were observed 15 miles west of Bill.
August 2015HailBill-Half dollar size hail was reported 33 miles west-northwest of Bill.
June 2015HailBill-Quarter size hail was observed at Dull Center.
June 2015HailBill-Ping pong ball size hail was observed 25 miles west-northwest of Bill.
June 2015HailBill-Half dollar to ping pong ball size hail was reported 15 miles west of Bill.
June 2014HailBill-Quarter size hail was observed northeast of Bill.
July 2014HailBill-Quarter to half dollar size hail was reported west of Bill.
July 2014HailBill-Ping pong ball size hail was reported west of Bill.
July 2014HailBill-Golf ball size hail was reported in Bill and east of Bill.
May 2014HailBill-Penny to quarter size hail was reported north of Bill.
July 2013HailBill-Ping pong ball to baseball size hail was reported just east of Bill.
July 2013HailBill-Marble to quarter size hail was reported 25 miles west-northwest of Bill.
July 2013HailBill-Dime to quarter size hail was reported west of Bill.
August 2013Flash FloodBill-Water and debris were flowing across Highway 59 north of Bill.
June 2012HailBill-Penny to quarter sized hail was observed.
June 2012HailBill-Dime to quarter sized hail was reported.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindBill-A collapsing thunderstorm produced a wind gust of 61 mph at Bill.
July 2011HailBill-Quarter to ping pong ball size hail was observed.
June 2010Tornado (EF0)Bill-Estimated path length and width due to no storm survey being conducted. No damage was reported.
May 2010HailBill-Hail of 1 inch in diameter fell with this storm.
June 1999Tornado (F0)Bill-Tornado reported 10 miles west of Bill, WY
July 2020HailBill-no account filed
June 2019HailBill-no account filed
June 2019HailBill-no account filed
July 2019HailBill-no account filed
July 2019HailBill-no account filed
July 2011HailBill-no account filed
July 2008HailBill-no account filed
July 2008HailBill-no account filed
August 2005HailBill-no account filed
August 2005HailBill-no account filed
August 2005HailBill-no account filed
July 2001HailBill-no account filed
July 2001HailBill-no account filed
August 1996HailBill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Converse 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
Whipple Hollow20.2 miles8
Underwood Crossing24.7 miles5
Birkner Hill25.4 miles8
Orpha29.0 miles9
Douglas33.2 miles10
Shawnee35.9 miles9
Ross36.3 miles9
Lost Springs36.8 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 BillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q10996991The 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 1598180. 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.

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.