Crowheart, Wyoming
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Wind River Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82512. It lies near Kane Draw. The Survey maps it on the Crowheart quadrangle. 120 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,096 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCrowheart fell from 141 to 120 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 | 141 | |
| 2020 | 120 | -21 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1952 USGS Crowheart quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Thermopolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Thermopolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Thermopolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Gannett Peak quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
14 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Crowheart between 2001 and 2020, burning about 1,070 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wind River Agency | YELLOWSTONE HWY #2 |
| 5 August 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wind River Agency | YELLOWSTONE HWY #1 |
| 9 July 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Wind River Agency | MEADOW CRK |
| 27 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fremont County | 86 HWY 26 |
| 27 April 2001 | Debris and open burning | 450 acres | Wind River Agency | CROWHEART |
| 21 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fremont County | NONE |
| 19 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Fremont County | NONE |
| 16 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 614 acres | Lander Field Office | CROWHEART |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crowheart in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crowheart | $5,000 | An automated sensor at Crowheart recorded a thunderstorm wind gust of 81 mph. The storm damaged several healthy trees, snapping off six to eight inch diameter limbs. |
| June 2022 | Flood | Crowheart | - | The river gage at Crowheart, WY along the Wind River peaked near 11 feet. The flooding remained in low-lying areas and caused no known damage. |
| June 2017 | Flood | Crowheart | - | Deep snow pack melted in the mountains and brought flooding along the Wind River near Crowheart, cresting at around 10 feet. The flooding occurred mainly in low lying areas near the river over rural areas and caused little damage. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Crowheart | - | Hail up to the size of ping pong balls was reported between Burris and Crowheart. |
| April 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crowheart | - | A weak high-based thunderstorm moved off the Wind River Range and collapsed, producing a severe wind gust at an automated station in Crowheart. |
| June 2004 | Hail | Crowheart | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Crowheart | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Willow Creek | 3.2 miles | 10 | |
| Burris | 5.7 miles | 11 | |
| Collins Place | 16.1 miles | 12 | |
| Bain Place | 19.6 miles | 13 | |
| Morton | 23.5 miles | 9 | |
| Fort Washakie | 26.7 miles | 8 | |
| Pavillion | 27.1 miles | 8 | |
| Wind River | 27.7 miles | 10 |
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 Crowheart | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1949834 | 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 1597273. 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.




