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Chugcreek, Wyoming

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Wheatland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82201. The Survey maps it on the Wheatland quadrangle. 154 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,757 feet above sea level.

Chugcreek within Platte County

Population over time

2 figures

Chugcreek fell from 156 to 154 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
2010156
2020154-2 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

76 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Chugcreek between 2001 and 2020, burning about 2,884 acres in total. 4 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
Debris and open burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Fireworks8
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
21 September 2018Smoking1.0 acresPlatte County312 FIRE
16 September 2018Fireworksunder an acrePlatte CountyFESTO LAKE FIRE
8 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePlatte County86 I-25
6 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePlatte County97 FIRE
4 August 2003Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
28 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acrePlatte CountyPREUIT ROAD FIRE
27 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePlatte CountyBASIN POLE FIRE
19 August 2019Fireworks10 acresPlatte CountyE COLE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Platte County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Chugcreek: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Basins MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Platte County

Storms near this place

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chugcreek in 4 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 4 hail. 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
May 2025HailChugcreek-Public reported 1.0 in hail near Wheatland.
May 2023HailChugcreek-MPing report of quarter sized hail 4 miles E of Wheatland.
June 2015HailChugcreek-Penny to quarter size hail was observed seven miles east of Wheatland.
August 2020HailChugcreek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Platte 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
Y-O Ranch1.7 miles13
Wheatland1.9 miles13
Sibylee2.9 miles13
Gibson2.9 miles13
Curtis3.3 miles13
Whiting3.3 miles13
Uva5.8 miles14
Ferguson Corner7.0 miles8

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 ChugcreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1874461The 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 1853200. 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.