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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.

Egbert within Laramie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

7 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined4
Natural2
Smoking1

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
23 July 2005Natural10 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
28 June 2017Natural1.0 acresLaramie County390 MILE MARKER I80
23 June 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
11 March 2015Smoking1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
29 February 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
10 October 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
1 October 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Laramie 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kunau PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Laramie County

Storms near this place

5 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2025Thunderstorm WindEgbert-Video from public on social media shows significant and sustained blowing dust from a thunderstorm. Visibility was reduced.
June 2015HailEgbert-Quarter size hail was observed three miles southeast of Burns.
May 2019HailEgbert-no account filed
May 2019HailEgbert-no account filed
July 1994HailEgbert-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Laramie 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
Tracy5.4 miles8
Burns5.6 miles9
Pine Bluffs10.0 miles12
Carpenter10.4 miles9
Arcola11.6 miles9
Hillsdale12.1 miles8
Durham18.1 miles13
Albin19.1 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.

Wikidata item Q31899863The 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.