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Dixon, Wyoming

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Rawlins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82323. It stands on Cottonwood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dixon quadrangle. 74 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,355 feet above sea level.

Dixon within Carbon County

On record in Dixon

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Dixon fell from 97 to 74 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
201097
202074-23 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

13 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Dixon between 2001 and 2020, burning about 82 acres in total. 8 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
Natural8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
20 August 2002Naturalunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeCOUNTYASSI
19 August 2011Naturalunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeCHAULK BLUFF
16 August 2010Natural1.0 acresRawlins Field OfficeDIXON AIRPORT
1 August 2020Natural25 acresCarbon CountyCORSON GRAVEL PIT
30 July 2001Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
28 July 2010Natural21 acresRawlins Field OfficeEVERSOLE
26 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.5 acresNorthwest District, CraigWILLOW
22 July 2015Natural15 acresRawlins Field OfficeMUDDY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dixon: 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, 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
CobbSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Cresent Uranium GroupUraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dixon in 1 storm report in 2013: 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
August 2013Thunderstorm WindDixon-A peak wind gust of 60 mph was reported north of Dixon.

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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
Savery4.6 miles16
Baggs6.5 miles13
Tullis18.4 miles16
Dexterville (historical)22.6 miles17
Copperton (historical)23.2 miles16
Dillon (historical)25.5 miles16
Rudefeha (historical)26.9 miles16
Rambler (historical)29.3 miles16

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 DixonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1028436The 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 1587668. 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.