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Bordeaux, Wyoming

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Wheatland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82201. The Survey maps it on the Bordeaux quadrangle. It stands 4,862 feet above sea level.

Bordeaux within Platte County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Bordeaux between 2002 and 2018, burning about 152 acres in total. 3 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
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony1
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
16 September 2003Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
9 August 2013Naturalunder an acreWyoming State ForestrySHEP 3
21 July 2018Natural135 acresPlatte CountyBULLSEYE
6 March 2012Railroad operations and maintenance7.0 acresWyoming State ForestryPORCUPINE
26 March 2002Natural8.0 acresRock Springs Field OfficeHORSESHOE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Platte County

Storms near this place

15 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bordeaux in 15 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 10 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2025HailBordeaux-Trained spotter reported nickel to quarter sized hail.
June 2025HailBordeaux-Trained spotter reports quarter sized hail.
July 2023HailBordeaux-MPING report of mainly dime sized hail with a few quarters. Wind gusts at WYDOT sensor at Bordeaux reported wind gusts to 55 mph.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindBordeaux-WYDOT site at Bordeaux on Interstate 25 reported this wind gust.
August 2019Flash FloodBordeaux-Flash flooding was reported along Normandy Road as Hunton Creek was flowing out of its banks onto the area roadways.
June 2017Funnel CloudBordeaux-A funnel cloud was observed near Weber and Deer Creek Road.
June 2017HailBordeaux-Hen egg size hail was observed two miles north of Bordeaux.
June 2017HailBordeaux-Grapefruit size hail was observed three miles north of Bordeaux.
June 2017HailBordeaux-Quarter size hail was observed three miles north of Bordeaux.
May 2016Flash FloodBordeaux-Three to five inches of rain in less than two hours caused flash flooding at Slater and Chugwater. Chugwater Creek overflowed its banks.
May 2014Funnel CloudBordeaux-A funnel cloud southwest of Bordeaux moved slowly northeast.
May 2014HailBordeaux-Quarter size hail was observed east of Bordeaux.
May 2014HailBordeaux-Quarter size hail was reported west of Bordeaux.
May 2014HailBordeaux-Quarter size hail was reported south of Grayrocks Reservoir.
June 2009HailBordeaux-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Platte 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
Slater4.5 miles8
Ferguson Corner7.5 miles8
Whiting8.1 miles13
Gibson8.3 miles13
Y-O Ranch8.3 miles13
Chugcreek8.7 miles13
Wheatland10.0 miles13
Natwick11.4 miles8

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 BordeauxAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q38249732The 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 1597225. 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.