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Cokeville, Wyoming

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Kemmerer West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83114. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cokeville quadrangle. 502 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,194 feet above sea level.

Cokeville within Lincoln County

Population over time

2 figures

Cokeville fell from 535 to 502 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
2010535
2020502-33 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

16 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Cokeville between 1999 and 2020, burning about 1,888 acres in total. 5 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
Natural5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Fireworks3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
10 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresLincoln CountySHEEP TRAIL
5 August 2019Natural16 acresKemmerer Field OfficeLOST CREEK
30 August 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKemmerer Field OfficeBIG HILL
15 August 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
14 August 2006Natural1,120 acresKemmerer Field OfficeSHEEP TRAIL
10 August 2015Natural15 acresKemmerer Field OfficeSHEEP TRAIL
5 July 2019Fireworks1.0 acresLincoln CountyLEGION PARK FIRE
24 July 2000Natural500 acresRock Springs Field OfficeSPRING CK

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Cokeville: 3 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Phosphorus-Phosphates, 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
Rocky Point (Stauffer Chemical Co., Cokeville)Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
UnknownUraniumOccurrenceStratabound
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cokeville in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 2017: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
March 2007Thunderstorm WindCokeville$500Large tree toppled in Cokeville.
March 2017FloodCokeville-A combination of rainfall and warm temperatures caused rapid snow melt that brought flooding to some areas around Cokeville. The flooding was restricted to low lying agricultural land and caused no damage.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindCokeville-Wind gusts from a thunderstorm estimated at 60 to 70 mph hit the Cokeville area of western Lincoln County on the afternoon of the 5th. Extensive damage to trees and residences occurred.

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Border Junction10.1 miles13
Carlson15.7 miles10
Sage18.6 miles10
Leefe19.0 miles13
Fossil22.1 miles10
Frontier28.9 miles10
Willow Addition29.6 miles10
Kemmerer29.8 miles10

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 CokevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1028465The 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 1609079. 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.