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Dwyer Junction, Wyoming

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Glendo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82201. The Survey maps it on the Dwyer quadrangle. It stands 4,888 feet above sea level.

Dwyer Junction within Platte County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Dwyer Junction between 2001 and 2017, burning about 156 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4

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 September 2001Naturalunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
12 August 2017Natural1.0 acresPlatte CountyCOTTONWOOD
31 July 2005Naturalunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
22 July 2012Natural2.0 acresMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandNORTH DWYER FIRE
14 July 2011Natural5.0 acresWyoming State ForestryDWYER JUNCTION
25 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
25 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State ForestryPEPPER
15 November 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined145 acresPlatte CountyCOTTONWOOD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Platte County

Storms near this place

22 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dwyer Junction in 22 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
June 2025Thunderstorm WindDwyer Junction-WYDOT sensor at Coleman reported a 61 mph wind gust.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindDwyer Junction-Mesonet station WY1 8.4 south of Sibley Peak reported a 59 mph wind gust.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindDwyer Junction-WYDOT sensor at Coleman on Interstate 25 measured a wind gust of 59 MPH.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindDwyer Junction-Coleman WYDOT site reported a thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindDwyer Junction-WYDOT mesonet station Coleman (WY1) along Interstate 25 south of Glendo measured wind gust.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindDwyer Junction-WYDOT mesonet station Coleman (WY1) along Interstate 25 measured wind gust 13 miles south of Glendo.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindDwyer Junction-WYDOT mesonet station Coleman (WY1) along Interstate 25 reported wind gust.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindDwyer Junction-WYDOT mesonet station Coleman (WY1) along Interstate 25 measured wind gust.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindDwyer Junction-Wyoming Department of Transportation along Interstate 25 at Coleman measured the reported wind gusts.
May 2020HailDwyer Junction-Observer reported hail via mPING.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindDwyer Junction-Mesonet station WY1 - I-25 Coleman.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindDwyer Junction-Wyoming Department of Transportation sensor located about eight miles south of Sibley Peak measured the reported wind gust. A review of available lightning data showed no lightning associated with the parent cell that produced these winds.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindDwyer Junction-WYDOT mesonet station WY1 - Coleman along I-25 reported wind gust.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindDwyer Junction-Wyoming Department of Transportation sensor along Interstate 25 south of Glendo or roughly 8.4 miles south of Sibley Peak measured the reported thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2016HailDwyer Junction-Golf ball size hail was reported on Cottonwood Road 17 miles north of Wheatland.
May 2014Flash FloodDwyer Junction-One to two inches of rain in an hour caused flash flooding across a small portion of central Platte County. High water closed Interstate 25 between mile markers 90 and 93, and Highway 26 from Bordeaux to eight miles west of Guernsey.
May 2014Funnel CloudDwyer Junction-A funnel cloud was reported 11 miles north of Wheatland near Interstate mile marker 88.
May 2014Tornado (EF0)Dwyer Junction-A weak tornado initially touched down just east of Interstate 25 mile marker 90 north of Wheatland. The tornado lifted and touched down for five minutes before it dissipated. No damage was reported.
April 2022HailDwyer Junction-no account filed
July 2019HailDwyer Junction-no account filed
August 2019HailDwyer Junction-no account filed
August 2019HailDwyer Junction-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Platte 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
Dwyer2.1 miles14
El Rancho3.5 miles11
Uva8.1 miles14
Wendover9.1 miles15
Curtis10.3 miles13
Sibylee10.8 miles13
Westview Circle12.3 miles9
Wheatland12.6 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q14714706The 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 1597300. 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.

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.