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Dubois, Wyoming

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Dubois census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82513. It stands on Horse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dubois quadrangle. 911 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,946 feet above sea level.

Dubois within Fremont County

On record in Dubois

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 9 records

Population over time

2 figures

Dubois fell from 971 to 911 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
2010971
2020911-60 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Dubois between 1994 and 2019, burning about 859 acres in total. 5 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
Natural5
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
17 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
6 August 2001Smokingunder an acreShoshone National ForestLITTLE WARM SPRINGS
31 August 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreShoshone National ForestSAWMILL
22 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined807 acresShoshone National ForestWARM SPRINGS
4 July 2019Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFremont CountySCHOOL
31 July 1994Naturalunder an acreShoshone National ForestJAKEY'S FORK
28 July 2002Naturalunder an acreShoshone National ForestSAR
25 July 2007Naturalunder an acreLander Field OfficeCHARITY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dubois: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Dubois # 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dubois in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flood, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
May 2008Tornado (EF0)Dubois1 hurt, $10,000A brief tornado occurred just north of the central business district in Dubois. A roof was torn from a public restroom facility and subsequently sheared off an 8x8-inch pole used for a sign at a local business. Flying debris also smashed a large window at a nearby residence. The broken glass slightly injured one woman in the home.
July 2007Flash FloodDubois$50,000Heavy rainfall of over one inch fell in about 30 minutes on the west side of Dubois. Hardest hit were locations between the golf course and U.S. Highway 26. Culverts were unable to handle the heavy rain, so water flowed over the top of at least one road. Overflowing washes created temporary waterfalls pushing water and mud across Ramshorn Street (U.S. Highway 26 in Dubois). A gas station along Warm Springs Drive reported two inches of mud and water inside the associated convenience store. An antique pool table store had over one-half foot of water inside. The Dubois cooperative observer recorded 1.39 inches of rainfall during the storm. This set an all-time daily precipitation record for the station, which has recorded weather observations for nearly 90 years.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindDubois-The Elkhorn RAWS site had a maximum wind gust of 58 mph.
September 1998FloodDubois-no account filed
July 1997HailDubois-no account filed
July 1997Funnel CloudDubois-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fremont 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
Bain Place9.0 miles13
DuNoir10.1 miles18
Burris22.2 miles11
Crowheart27.8 miles10
Collins Place28.6 miles12
Willow Creek31.1 miles10
Morton50.9 miles9
Pavillion53.7 miles8

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 DuboisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1003748The 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 1609085. 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.