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Centennial, Wyoming

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the South Albany census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82055. It stands on Mullen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Centennial quadrangle. 283 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 8,074 feet above sea level.

Centennial within Albany County

On record in Centennial

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 6 records

Population over time

3 figures

Centennial grew from 191 to 283 between 2000 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
2000191
2010270+79 (+41%)
2020283+13 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Centennial between 1992 and 2019, burning about 22 acres in total. 7 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
Recreation and ceremony20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural7
Debris and open burning5
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grasslandnot named
5 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandCOOLIDGE
5 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grasslandnot named
4 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandNORTH FORK TRL #2
3 September 2002Natural2.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
2 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandLIBBY LOOP
12 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grasslandnot named
29 August 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grasslandnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Albany County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Centennial: 13 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Platinum, Silver, Copper. 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
Archer Placer ClaimGold, Iridium, Platinum, Osmium, PalladiumProducerStream Placer
Centennial Ridge DistrictGold, Platinum, PalladiumPast Producer1874, 1875
Columbine MineCopper, Silver, Gold, PlatinumPast Producer1927
Empire MineSilver, Gold, Copper, Platinum, Palladium, Osmium, Ruthenium, Rhodium, IridiumPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Malachite, Pyrite
Fall Creek PlacerGold, Rhodium, Osmium, PlatinumPast ProducerStream Placer
Free Gold ClaimGold, Copper, Silver, PlatinumPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Gold, Malachite, Pyrite
Independence MineSilver, Copper, Gold, Platinum, Palladium, Rhodium, Nickel, Osmium, IridiumPast ProducerGold, Pyrite
Independence PlacerGold, Osmium, Ruthenium, Rhodium, Palladium, PlatinumOccurrenceStream Placer
Kentucky Derby MineCopper, Gold, Silver, Iridium, Osmium, Palladium, PlatinumPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Gold, Malachite, Pyrite
Medicine Bow MountainsLithiumProspect

Every working recorded in Albany County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Centennial in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2021: 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 deaths. 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 1999LightningCentennial2 killedno account filed
July 2021Flash FloodCentennial-Spotter reported one inch of rainfall in thirty minutes along with pea size hail.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindCentennial-The WYDOT sensor at Quealy Dome measured a wind gust of 61 mph.
July 2021HailCentennial-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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Deerwood4.3 miles14
Albany7.9 miles14
Hatton8.4 miles23
Keystone10.9 miles17
Millbrook11.8 miles23
Collins (historical)13.0 miles17
Woods Landing14.6 miles16
Foxpark15.1 miles17

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 CentennialAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1956117The 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 1586522. 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.