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Boulder, Wyoming

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Boulder census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82923. It stands on Boulder Creek. The Survey maps it on the Boulder quadrangle. 115 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,018 feet above sea level.

Boulder within Sublette County

On record in Boulder

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 7 records

Population over time

2 figures

Boulder fell from 170 to 115 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
2010170
2020115-55 (-32%)

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

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Boulder between 1995 and 2020, burning about 63 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
3 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSublette CountySHOSHONE
5 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSublette CountyGREGORY
7 July 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acrePinedale Field OfficeMILE MARKER 90
1 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
19 June 2006Natural1.5 acresPinedale Field OfficeLOVATT
9 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreSublette CountyBLAIR ROAD
21 April 2020Debris and open burning50 acresSublette CountyGRABEL
17 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.7 acresPinedale Field OfficeFISH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sublette County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Boulder: 5 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. 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
UnknownUraniumOccurrence
UnknownUraniumUnknown
Boulder No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Sublette County

Storms near this place

5 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boulder in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2018: 4 hail, 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
July 2018HailBoulder-A trained spotter reported nickel size hail to the east of Boulder.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindBoulder-Measured wind gust on home weather station.
July 2005HailBoulder-no account filed
July 2005HailBoulder-no account filed
July 2005HailBoulder-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sublette 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
New Fork3.2 miles10
Pinedale11.2 miles11
Sylvan Bay Summer Home Area14.7 miles11
Big Sandy15.5 miles9
Cora19.2 miles10
Daniel20.4 miles10
Daniel Junction21.0 miles10
Marbleton24.7 miles11

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 BoulderAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1907722The 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 1585799. 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.

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.