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Boulder Flats, Wyoming

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Wind River Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82520. The Survey maps it on the Ray Lake quadrangle. 450 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,587 feet above sea level.

Boulder Flats within Fremont County

Population over time

2 figures

Boulder Flats grew from 408 to 450 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
2010408
2020450+42 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

186 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 186 fires within 5 miles of Boulder Flats between 1992 and 2020, burning about 744 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 were 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
Debris and open burning84
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Fireworks25
Recreation and ceremony16
Smoking15
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
7 September 2011Arson/incendiarism5.7 acresWind River AgencyPLUNKET COMPLEX
7 September 2011Smokingunder an acreWind River AgencyMILL CREEK RD
25 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresWind River AgencyTHUNDER HILL
22 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresWind River Agency360 BLUE SKY HWY
19 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreWind River AgencyMILL CREEK
18 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWind River AgencyMOUSE TRAP
17 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWind River Agency158 BLUE SKY
17 September 2011Smokingunder an acreWind River Agency205 MILL CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Boulder Flats: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Wind River Mtn Front #3Gypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence
Wypo PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Fremont 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
Milford2.6 miles10
Lander6.6 miles12
Wind River6.8 miles10
Wyopo7.0 miles12
Fort Washakie7.8 miles8
Ethete7.9 miles8
Hudson11.4 miles11
Johnstown15.1 miles9

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 Boulder FlatsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1953423The 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 1853198. 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.