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.
Population over time
2 figuresEsterbrook 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 52 | |
| 2020 | 40 | -12 (-23%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1943 USGS Esterbrook quadrangle1:62500
- 1945 USGS Esterbrook quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Torrington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Torrington quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Laramie Peak quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Esterbrook quadrangle1:24000
- 1992 USGS Esterbrook quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
84 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 63 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2001 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | THREE CRIPLES |
| 28 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | EAST GREEN RIDGE |
| 25 September 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | HORSE THIEF FIRE |
| 2 September 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | COOPER CREEK |
| 2 September 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | HORSE THIEF 2 |
| 19 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | BEAR |
| 19 September 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Casper Field Office | GATE |
| 16 September 1996 | Natural | 15 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | FOUR POINT |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 28 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Esterbrook Mine | Silver, Calcium, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Eureka Prospect | Copper, Iron, Gold | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrrhotite | |
| Eureka Prospect-Esterbrook Area | Copper, Gold, Lead | Prospect | ||
| Kreisley Deposit | Pumice | Prospect | ||
| Maggie Murphy Group Prospect | Iron, Copper, Graphite, Zinc | Prospect | Chalcopyrite, Hematite, Marcasite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite | |
| Maverick Claim | Pyrite | Prospect | ||
| Mc Ghee Prospect | Iron, Zinc, Copper | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite | |
| Mcgee Claim | Sulfur, Copper, Zinc | Prospect | ||
| Strong Mine | Lead, Copper, Gold, Molybdenum | Past Producer | ||
| Tenderfoot Prospect | Copper, Zinc, Silver, Gold | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrite, Silver, Sphalerite |
Storms near this place
9 since 2006Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2023 | Hail | Esterbrook | - | Public reported on social media a video of hail ranging from dimes to quarters. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Esterbrook | - | RAWS station ESTW4 - Esterbrook reported wind gust 23 miles south of Douglas in the North Laramie Range. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Esterbrook | - | Resident's riding lawn mower was knocked over and damaged as a result from the thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Esterbrook | - | A wind sensor at Esterbrook measured a peak gust of 62 mph. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Esterbrook | - | Estimated wind gusts of 55 to 60 mph were observed five miles southwest of Esterbrook. |
| August 2006 | Hail | Esterbrook | - | 3/4 to 1 inch diameter hail piled up to 2 inches deep. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Esterbrook | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Esterbrook | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Esterbrook | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Irvine | 17.7 miles | 9 | |
| Orin | 18.9 miles | 8 | |
| Ammon | 19.2 miles | 8 | |
| Orin Junction | 19.3 miles | 8 | |
| Deadmans Corner | 22.0 miles | 9 | |
| Douglas | 24.0 miles | 10 | |
| Shawnee | 29.7 miles | 9 | |
| Boxelder | 29.9 miles | 9 |
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 Esterbrook | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q541466 | 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 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.






