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.
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
Welty Amoretti Helmer & Co Banklisted 2019
Diamond A Ranchlisted 1991
ELS Bridge over Big Wind Riverlisted 1985
Torrey Lake Club/Ranch Historic Districtlisted 1991
Twin Pines Lodge and Cabin Camplisted 1993
Welty's General Storelisted 1979- Brooks Lake Lodgelisted 1982
- CM Ranch and Simpson Lake Cabinslisted 1992
- T Cross Ranch Rural Historic Districtlisted 2008
Population over time
2 figuresDubois 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 971 | |
| 2020 | 911 | -60 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 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.
- 1905 USGS Younts Peak quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1907 USGS Younts Peak quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Thermopolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Dubois quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Thermopolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Thermopolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS The Ramshorn quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1991 USGS Dubois quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
16 since 1994Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 6 August 2001 | Smoking | under an acre | Shoshone National Forest | LITTLE WARM SPRINGS |
| 31 August 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Shoshone National Forest | SAWMILL |
| 22 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 807 acres | Shoshone National Forest | WARM SPRINGS |
| 4 July 2019 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Fremont County | SCHOOL |
| 31 July 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Shoshone National Forest | JAKEY'S FORK |
| 28 July 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Shoshone National Forest | SAR |
| 25 July 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Lander Field Office | CHARITY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dubois # 1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown |
Storms near this place
6 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Dubois | 1 hurt, $10,000 | A 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Dubois | $50,000 | Heavy 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 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dubois | - | The Elkhorn RAWS site had a maximum wind gust of 58 mph. |
| September 1998 | Flood | Dubois | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Dubois | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Dubois | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bain Place | 9.0 miles | 13 | |
| DuNoir | 10.1 miles | 18 | |
| Burris | 22.2 miles | 11 | |
| Crowheart | 27.8 miles | 10 | |
| Collins Place | 28.6 miles | 12 | |
| Willow Creek | 31.1 miles | 10 | |
| Morton | 50.9 miles | 9 | |
| Pavillion | 53.7 miles | 8 |
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 Dubois | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1003748 | 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 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.







