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.
Population over time
2 figuresChugcreek 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 156 | |
| 2020 | 154 | -2 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1896 USGS Hartville quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Hartville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Wheatland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Torrington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Torrington quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Torrington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Wheatland quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
76 since 2001Regional 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 burning | 22 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Fireworks | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2018 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Platte County | 312 FIRE |
| 16 September 2018 | Fireworks | under an acre | Platte County | FESTO LAKE FIRE |
| 8 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Platte County | 86 I-25 |
| 6 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Platte County | 97 FIRE |
| 4 August 2003 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 5.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 28 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Platte County | PREUIT ROAD FIRE |
| 27 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Platte County | BASIN POLE FIRE |
| 19 August 2019 | Fireworks | 10 acres | Platte County | E COLE FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basins Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 2015Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2025 | Hail | Chugcreek | - | Public reported 1.0 in hail near Wheatland. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Chugcreek | - | MPing report of quarter sized hail 4 miles E of Wheatland. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Chugcreek | - | Penny to quarter size hail was observed seven miles east of Wheatland. |
| August 2020 | Hail | Chugcreek | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Chugcreek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1874461 | The 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.






