Egbert, Wyoming
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Pine Bluffs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82053. The Survey maps it on the Burns quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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 Cheyenne quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Cheyenne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Burns quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Cheyenne quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1991 USGS Burns quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
7 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Egbert between 1992 and 2017, burning about 96 acres in total. 2 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 | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 July 2005 | Natural | 10 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 28 June 2017 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Laramie County | 390 MILE MARKER I80 |
| 23 June 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 11 March 2015 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 29 February 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 10 October 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 1 October 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
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 Egbert: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kunau Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Egbert in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 4 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Egbert | - | Video from public on social media shows significant and sustained blowing dust from a thunderstorm. Visibility was reduced. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Egbert | - | Quarter size hail was observed three miles southeast of Burns. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Egbert | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Egbert | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | Egbert | - | 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.
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 Q31899863 | 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 1599543. 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.




