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Casper Mountain, Wyoming

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Casper South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82601. It stands on Casper Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Crimson Dawn quadrangle. 545 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,963 feet above sea level.

Casper Mountain within Natrona County

Population over time

2 figures

Casper Mountain grew from 401 to 545 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
2010401
2020545+144 (+36%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Casper Mountain between 1992 and 2020, burning about 16,025 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 1 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
Natural37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCasper Field OfficeCASPER MOUNTAIN
9 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined15,556 acresCasper Field OfficeSHEEPHERDER HILL
8 September 2013Naturalunder an acreCasper Field OfficeMUDDY MOUNTAIN
8 September 1998Naturalunder an acreCasper Field OfficeCOAL MTN
7 September 2013Naturalunder an acreCasper Field OfficeMILLS RANCH FIRE
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresCasper Field OfficeCIRCLE DRIVE
5 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution11 acresNatrona CountyGARDEN CREEK
26 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCasper Field OfficeGRADEN CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Natrona County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Casper Mountain: 9 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Feldspar, Vanadium. 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
Casper Mountain MineChromiumProspect1911
Koch feldspar depositFeldsparPast Producer
Koch gold and silver depositGold, SilverOccurrenceGold, Silver
Koch's manganese depositManganeseOccurrence
Rim Rock Ranch PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownVanadiumOccurrence
UnknownMagnesiteOccurrence
Big Red CreekGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Muddy CreekGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Koch hematite deposit on Casper MountainIronOccurrenceReplacement

Every working recorded in Natrona 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
Eadsville (historical)1.4 miles8
Crimson Dawn2.5 miles8
Allendale5.7 miles11
Thorndale Acres6.0 miles11
Paradise Valley7.0 miles11
Red Buttes Village7.2 miles11
Red Butte7.6 miles11
Mills7.7 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 Casper MountainAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1942385The 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 1853199. 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.