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Daniel, Wyoming

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Pinedale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83115. It stands on Prairie Creek. The Survey maps it on the Daniel quadrangle. 108 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,195 feet above sea level.

Daniel within Sublette County

On record in Daniel

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 4 records

Population over time

3 figures

Daniel grew from 89 to 108 between 2000 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
200089
2010150+61 (+69%)
2020108-42 (-28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

9 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Daniel between 1993 and 2018, burning about 21 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/undetermined3
Natural2
Firearms and explosives use1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 August 1998Naturalunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeDANIEL
13 August 2006Firearms and explosives use1.6 acresPinedale Field OfficeTRACER
24 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePinedale Field OfficeMILE MARKER 112
29 June 2013Natural1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
16 April 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSublette CountyHORSE CREEK
11 March 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresSublette CountyKAUL
20 October 2018Equipment and vehicle use15 acresSublette CountyGRANDVIEW GRINDER
1 October 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sublette 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 Daniel: 4 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Alexander PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
James RanchSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Wye PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Sublette County

Storms near this place

8 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Daniel in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire, 1 flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2011FloodDaniel$50,000Horse Creek and other small tributaries of the Green River near Daniel overflowed their banks quickly flooding lowlands and nearly impacting several roads. The flood waters caused several homes north and east of Daniel to be sandbagged around their perimeter.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindDaniel-A 59 mph wind gust occurred in the Lee of the Absarokas at the Cottonwood Merna mesonet site.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindDaniel-A maximum 71 mph wind gust was reported at the Cottonwood Merna weather station to the west of Daniel.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindDaniel-A 65 mph wind gust was reported to the west of Daniel.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindDaniel-A 59 mph wind gust occurred at the Cottonwood Merna mesonet site to the west of Daniel.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindDaniel-no account filed
August 2022HailDaniel-no account filed
July 2002WildfireDaniel-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 Junction1.8 miles10
Cora7.1 miles10
Bronx9.2 miles10
Pinedale11.1 miles11
Halfway14.7 miles10
Merna15.4 miles10
Sylvan Bay Summer Home Area16.4 miles11
Boulder20.4 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 DanielAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1159854The 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 1587343. 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.