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Esterbrook, Wyoming

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Douglas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82633. It stands on Esterbrook Hill. The Survey maps it on the Esterbrook quadrangle. 40 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,516 feet above sea level.

Esterbrook within Converse County

Population over time

2 figures

Esterbrook fell from 52 to 40 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.

YearPeople Change
201052
202040-12 (-23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

84 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Esterbrook between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,418 acres in total. 63 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
Natural63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks1
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
6 September 2001Natural5.0 acresMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandTHREE CRIPLES
28 September 2002Naturalunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandEAST GREEN RIDGE
25 September 2012Naturalunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandHORSE THIEF FIRE
2 September 2004Naturalunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandCOOPER CREEK
2 September 2004Naturalunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandHORSE THIEF 2
19 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandBEAR
19 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCasper Field OfficeGATE
16 September 1996Natural15 acresMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandFOUR POINT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Converse County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Esterbrook: 14 prospects, 10 occurrences, 3 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Copper, Iron, Zinc. 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
Esterbrook MineSilver, Calcium, LeadPast Producer
Eureka ProspectCopper, Iron, GoldOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrrhotite
Eureka Prospect-Esterbrook AreaCopper, Gold, LeadProspect
Kreisley DepositPumiceProspect
Maggie Murphy Group ProspectIron, Copper, Graphite, ZincProspectChalcopyrite, Hematite, Marcasite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite
Maverick ClaimPyriteProspect
Mc Ghee ProspectIron, Zinc, CopperOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite
Mcgee ClaimSulfur, Copper, ZincProspect
Strong MineLead, Copper, Gold, MolybdenumPast Producer
Tenderfoot ProspectCopper, Zinc, Silver, GoldOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrite, Silver, Sphalerite

Every working recorded in Converse County

Storms near this place

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Esterbrook in 9 storm reports between 2006 and 2023: 5 hail, 4 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
June 2023HailEsterbrook-Public reported on social media a video of hail ranging from dimes to quarters.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindEsterbrook-RAWS station ESTW4 - Esterbrook reported wind gust 23 miles south of Douglas in the North Laramie Range.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindEsterbrook-Resident's riding lawn mower was knocked over and damaged as a result from the thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindEsterbrook-A wind sensor at Esterbrook measured a peak gust of 62 mph.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindEsterbrook-Estimated wind gusts of 55 to 60 mph were observed five miles southwest of Esterbrook.
August 2006HailEsterbrook-3/4 to 1 inch diameter hail piled up to 2 inches deep.
July 2019HailEsterbrook-no account filed
July 2019HailEsterbrook-no account filed
August 2009HailEsterbrook-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Converse 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
Irvine17.7 miles9
Orin18.9 miles8
Ammon19.2 miles8
Orin Junction19.3 miles8
Deadmans Corner22.0 miles9
Douglas24.0 miles10
Shawnee29.7 miles9
Boxelder29.9 miles9

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 EsterbrookAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q541466The 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 1599634. 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.