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Cottier, Wyoming

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Torrington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82240. The Survey maps it on the Cottier quadrangle.

Cottier within Goshen County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 18 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

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Cottier between 1992 and 2020, burning about 60 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/undetermined11
Debris and open burning6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Fireworks3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
10 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
22 August 2020Fireworksunder an acreGoshen CountyHWY 154
19 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresGoshen CountyHWY92 & HWY 85
4 July 2017Fireworks1.0 acresGoshen County202 ROCK RIDGE
4 July 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
31 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGoshen CountySHOOTING RANGE
18 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresGoshen CountyUS HWY 26
17 July 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Goshen County

Storms near this place

8 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cottier in 8 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 7 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2025HailCottier-Quarter size hail with estimated 60 mph winds.
July 2023HailCottier-Initially quarter size hail quickly becoming larger closer to tennis ball size hail. Home received damage with broken windows.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindCottier-Goshen County Emergency Management reported structure and tree damage at the intersection of Road 60 and Road 33, 6 miles NE of Veteran. Estimated 70+ MPH wind gusts.
August 2023HailCottier-no account filed
July 2022HailCottier-no account filed
May 2020HailCottier-no account filed
June 2020HailCottier-no account filed
August 2019HailCottier-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Goshen 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
Heldt4.3 miles18
South Torrington4.8 miles17
Torrington5.0 miles17
Veteran7.4 miles12
Silver Tip7.4 miles13
Yoder7.5 miles13
Huntley8.8 miles13
Lingle9.0 miles18

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.

Wikidata item Q122569231The 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 1597267. 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.

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.