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.
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
- Dorr Ranchlisted 2014
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1955 USGS Newcastle quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Newcastle quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Bill quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Bill quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Bill quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
21 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2009 | Natural | 3.2 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | SHELDON |
| 4 September 2009 | Natural | 2.5 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | SHELDON DRAW |
| 4 September 1995 | Natural | 34 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | SEEBAUM |
| 2 September 2001 | Natural | 150 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | JR STODDARD #2 |
| 17 September 2018 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 3,782 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | WEST TILLARD FIRE |
| 13 September 2018 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | MM 33 FIRE |
| 5 August 2000 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 4 August 2018 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | BAUER FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
55 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2019 | Flash Flood | Bill | $10,000 | An 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 1998 | Hail | Bill | $4,000 | A storm produced golfball size hail 7 miles east of Bill. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bill | - | Upper Missouri River Basin Station at Bill 8NE recorded severe wind gust. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Bill | - | Half-dollar sized hail was reported by a trained spotter located approximately 10 miles north of Bill. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Bill | - | Public reported golfball sized hail in and around Bill. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Bill | - | Social media report of 1 inch hail and damage to trees, plants and a broken window. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bill | - | Spotter estimated 50 to 60 mph wind gusts. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Bill | - | The public measured hail up to 2.5 inches in diameter 16 miles SSE of Bill. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Bill | - | The public measured hail up to 2.5 inches in diameter 12 miles SSE of Bill. |
| August 2022 | Hail | Bill | - | Received video on social media of ping pong to golf ball size hail with accumulating hail along State Highway 59 south of Bill. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bill | - | RAWS station RHKW4 - Rochelle Hills reported wind gust. |
| June 2019 | Tornado (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 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bill | - | Observer noted dime size hail and heavy rainfall. |
| July 2018 | Hail | Bill | - | Heavy rains associated with the storm flooded basement along with hail breaking two windows. |
| July 2018 | Hail | Bill | - | Quarter size hail was observed northeast of Bill. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Bill | - | Quarter size hail was reported at Bill. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bill | - | Estimated 65 mph wind gusts were reported at Bill. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Bill | - | Quarter size hail was reported a mile east of Dull Center. |
| July 2015 | Hail | Bill | - | Quarter size hail was observed ten miles east of Bill. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Bill | - | Quarter size hail was observed 15 miles west of Bill. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bill | - | Estimated wind gusts of 55 to 60 mph were observed 15 miles west of Bill. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Bill | - | Half dollar size hail was reported 33 miles west-northwest of Bill. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Bill | - | Quarter size hail was observed at Dull Center. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Bill | - | Ping pong ball size hail was observed 25 miles west-northwest of Bill. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Bill | - | Half dollar to ping pong ball size hail was reported 15 miles west of Bill. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Bill | - | Quarter size hail was observed northeast of Bill. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Bill | - | Quarter to half dollar size hail was reported west of Bill. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Bill | - | Ping pong ball size hail was reported west of Bill. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Bill | - | Golf ball size hail was reported in Bill and east of Bill. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Bill | - | Penny to quarter size hail was reported north of Bill. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Bill | - | Ping pong ball to baseball size hail was reported just east of Bill. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Bill | - | Marble to quarter size hail was reported 25 miles west-northwest of Bill. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Bill | - | Dime to quarter size hail was reported west of Bill. |
| August 2013 | Flash Flood | Bill | - | Water and debris were flowing across Highway 59 north of Bill. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Bill | - | Penny to quarter sized hail was observed. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Bill | - | Dime to quarter sized hail was reported. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bill | - | A collapsing thunderstorm produced a wind gust of 61 mph at Bill. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Bill | - | Quarter to ping pong ball size hail was observed. |
| June 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Bill | - | Estimated path length and width due to no storm survey being conducted. No damage was reported. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Bill | - | Hail of 1 inch in diameter fell with this storm. |
| June 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Bill | - | Tornado reported 10 miles west of Bill, WY |
| July 2020 | Hail | Bill | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Bill | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Bill | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Bill | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Bill | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Bill | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Bill | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Bill | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Bill | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Bill | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Bill | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Bill | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Bill | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Bill | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whipple Hollow | 20.2 miles | 8 | |
| Underwood Crossing | 24.7 miles | 5 | |
| Birkner Hill | 25.4 miles | 8 | |
| Orpha | 29.0 miles | 9 | |
| Douglas | 33.2 miles | 10 | |
| Shawnee | 35.9 miles | 9 | |
| Ross | 36.3 miles | 9 | |
| Lost Springs | 36.8 miles | 7 |
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 Bill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q10996991 | 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 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.




