BlockDwyer, Wyoming
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Guernsey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82201. The Survey maps it on the Dwyer quadrangle. It stands 4,833 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1896 USGS Hartville quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Hartville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Dwyer quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Torrington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Torrington quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Torrington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Dwyer quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
9 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Dwyer between 2001 and 2019, burning about 158 acres in total. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Natural | 4 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 12 August 2017 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Platte County | COTTONWOOD |
| 22 July 2012 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | NORTH DWYER FIRE |
| 14 July 2011 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | DWYER JUNCTION |
| 25 June 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 25 April 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wyoming State Forestry | PEPPER |
| 15 November 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 145 acres | Platte County | COTTONWOOD |
| 11 October 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dwyer in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 3 hail, 2 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 2025 | Hail | Dwyer | - | Storm chaser reports hail ranging from pea to quarter sized at the intersection of US-26 and Wheatland Hwy in Platte County. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Dwyer | - | Quarter size hail covering the ground near Interstate 25 mile marker 91 north of Wheatland. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dwyer | - | The WYDOT sensor at Coleman measured a peak wind gust of 79 mph. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Dwyer | - | The hail was observed at Interstate 25 mile marker 100. The hail was so deep that WYDOT was called to plow that section of the interstate highway. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dwyer | - | Five power poles were blown down starting just north of the intersection of Wyoming Highway 320 and U.S. Highway 26 and extending about a mile to the east. |
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.
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 Dwyer | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14714705 | 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 1597299. 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.