Bosler, Wyoming

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Rock River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82051. The Survey maps it on the Bosler quadrangle. It stands 7,080 feet above sea level.

Bosler within Albany County

On record in Bosler

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

DOE Bridge over Laramie Riverlisted 1985

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.

1954 USGS Cheyenne quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Bosler quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Cheyenne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Rock River quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Bosler between 1994 and 2018, burning about 9 acres in total. None 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	3
Debris and open burning	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
10 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
6 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Crook County	BOSLER FIRE
15 May 2012	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	BOSLER FIRE
1 October 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Albany County

Storms near this place

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bosler in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 9 hail, 3 tornado, 1 funnel cloud, 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 2025	Hail	Bosler	-	Report from mPING of quarter size hail.
July 2019	Tornado (EF1)	Bosler	-	A supercell thunderstorm developed near the town of Rock River, Wyoming, in west-central Albany County. At 606 PM MDT, the storm rapidly intensified as it moved southeast. A tornado touched down and crossed Highway 30 south of Bosler, Wyoming at 610 PM MDT, and dissipated at 619 PM MDT. The storm continued to show signs of rotation as it moved east-southeast toward the Laramie County line, however no additional tornadoes were reported.\|\|A survey team from the National Weather Service in Cheyenne met with officials from Albany County to investigate storm damage in the Bosler area. Eyewitness reports and snapped wooden power poles along County Road 51 indicated the initial tornado touched down in an open field about 2.5 miles west-southwest of Bosler, or 18.5 miles north-northwest of Laramie. The tornado lifted for a short time but descended again and caused complete destruction of a pole barn near Highway 30 about three miles south-southeast of Bosler. The tornado crossed Highway 30, confirmed by aerial photographs provided by the City of Laramie. Large pieces of warped metal were blown several hundred yards to the east of the highway in a wide swath. The damage footprint ended near the point of the original report. Damage was consistent with an EF-1 tornado with maximum winds around 100 mph.
July 2015	Hail	Bosler	-	Half dollar size hail was observed ten miles northwest of Iron Mountain.
June 2015	Hail	Bosler	-	Quarter size hail was observed at Bosler.
May 2015	Tornado (EF0)	Bosler	-	A weak tornado touched down in open country eight miles west-northwest of Bosler and moved northwest at 15 mph. The tornado was on the ground for five minutes then dissipated. No damage was reported.
June 2015	Hail	Bosler	-	Golf ball size hail was reported 16 miles north-northwest of Iron Mountain.
June 2014	Hail	Bosler	-	Quarter size hail was observed six miles north of Baldy Peak.
August 2013	Flash Flood	Bosler	-	Flash flooding occurred along Highway 34 between mile markers 19 and 27 northeast of Bosler. A mudslide was reported at mile marker 22 about three miles southwest of the Sybille Wildlife Research Center.
July 2013	Hail	Bosler	-	Penny to quarter size hail was reported west of Bosler.
August 1997	Funnel Cloud	Bosler	-	Two funnel clouds reported.
July 2019	Hail	Bosler	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Bosler	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Bosler	-	no account filed
July 1994	Tornado (F0)	Bosler	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Albany 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bosler Junction	1.8 miles	8
Cooper Lake	5.5 miles	8
Wyoming	7.5 miles	18
Lookout	8.4 miles	8
Howell	11.7 miles	18
Harper	13.8 miles	8
Rock River	18.7 miles	8
West Laramie	18.9 miles	19

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 Bosler	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4947298	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 1585790. 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.