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Cora, Wyoming

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Pinedale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82925. The Survey maps it on the Cora quadrangle. 114 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,352 feet above sea level.

Cora within Sublette County

On record in Cora

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Cora fell from 142 to 114 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
2010142
2020114-28 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

7 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Cora between 1992 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2
Natural1

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
18 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresPinedale Field OfficeBINNING ROAD
19 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSublette CountyCORA HIGHWAY
18 July 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreSublette CountySPRING GULCH FIRE
23 June 1992Naturalunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestEASTSIDE
9 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreSublette CountyKREACH FIRE
1 October 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
1 October 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sublette County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Cora: 7 unknowns, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
South Fork, Little Wind RiverPhosphorus-PhosphatesUnknown
Bar Cross PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Bootjack PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cora PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
F Bar Cross Seventy SixSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Graveyard PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
NobleSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Noble PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Sand and Gravel pitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Sand and Gravel pitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sublette County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cora in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
July 2025HailCora-A trained spotter reported golf ball size hail to the north of Cora.
May 2010LightningCora-Lightning ignited a fire in a haystack near Cora around 1700MST. The fire smoldered into the early morning hours of the following day and scorched approximately 350 tons of hay. The stack was three bales high across an area 300 feet by 200 feet in size.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindCora-no account filed
August 2002HailCora-no account filed
August 1997HailCora-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sublette 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
Daniel Junction5.8 miles10
Daniel7.1 miles10
Pinedale8.1 miles11
Bronx8.1 miles10
Sylvan Bay Summer Home Area10.4 miles11
Merna19.1 miles10
Boulder19.2 miles10
Halfway21.1 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 CoraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1942157The 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 1597349. 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.