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.
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
Stockgrowers Banklisted 1986
Population over time
2 figuresDixon 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 97 | |
| 2020 | 74 | -23 (-24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 13 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.
- 1954 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Baggs quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Baggs SE quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Dixon quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Baggs quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
13 since 2001Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 August 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | COUNTYASSI |
| 19 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | CHAULK BLUFF |
| 16 August 2010 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Rawlins Field Office | DIXON AIRPORT |
| 1 August 2020 | Natural | 25 acres | Carbon County | CORSON GRAVEL PIT |
| 30 July 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 28 July 2010 | Natural | 21 acres | Rawlins Field Office | EVERSOLE |
| 26 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9.5 acres | Northwest District, Craig | WILLOW |
| 22 July 2015 | Natural | 15 acres | Rawlins Field Office | MUDDY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cobb | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Cresent Uranium Group | Uranium | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
1 since 2013Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dixon | - | A peak wind gust of 60 mph was reported north of Dixon. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Savery | 4.6 miles | 16 | |
| Baggs | 6.5 miles | 13 | |
| Tullis | 18.4 miles | 16 | |
| Dexterville (historical) | 22.6 miles | 17 | |
| Copperton (historical) | 23.2 miles | 16 | |
| Dillon (historical) | 25.5 miles | 16 | |
| Rudefeha (historical) | 26.9 miles | 16 | |
| Rambler (historical) | 29.3 miles | 16 |
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 Dixon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1028436 | 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 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.








