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Ethete, Wyoming

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1962. It stands in the Wind River Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82520. It stands on Trout Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ethete quadrangle. 1,393 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,354 feet above sea level.

Ethete within Fremont County

On record in Ethete

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Ethete fell from 1,553 to 1,393 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
20101,553
20201,393-160 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

542 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 542 fires within 5 miles of Ethete between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,247 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 12 were 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
Debris and open burning283
Missing data/not specified/undetermined67
Fireworks52
Smoking38
Misuse of fire by a minor35
Recreation and ceremony18
Natural15
Equipment and vehicle use13
Arson/incendiarism12
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Other causes4
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreWind River Agency820 ETHETE RD
9 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreWind River Agency117 17 MILE
7 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWind River AgencyTWOSPOT
6 September 2015Misuse of fire by a minor2.5 acresWind River AgencyLONE BEAR LANE
6 September 2005Smokingunder an acreWind River AgencyWHITE
5 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWind River AgencyGROVE
5 September 2010Debris and open burning7.7 acresWind River AgencyPIT #2
5 September 2002Natural2.0 acresWind River AgencySAGE CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Ethete: 3 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Uranium, Geothermal. 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
Fort Washakie Hot SpringGeothermalUnknown
Wind River Indian Reservation No.1UraniumOccurrence
Ethete # 1Gypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Ethete #2Gypsum-AnhydriteUnknown

Every working recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this place

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ethete in 4 storm reports between 2015 and 2021: 4 hail. 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
August 2021HailEthete-A former NWS employee reported one inch diameter hail in Ethete.
August 2018HailEthete-An off duty NWS employee reported nickel size hail along Highway 137 on the Wind River Reservation.
June 2017HailEthete-There were numerous reports of hail across the Wind River Reservation from Ethete to near around Fort Washakie. The largest report was southeast of Arapahoe where hail of quarter size was reported.
June 2015HailEthete-The public posted a picture on Facebook of half dollar sized hail in Ethete.

Every storm recorded in Fremont 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
Fort Washakie6.0 miles8
Wind River6.5 miles10
Johnstown7.5 miles9
Boulder Flats7.9 miles10
Kinnear10.1 miles8
Milford10.3 miles10
Morton12.1 miles9
Wyopo12.5 miles12

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 EtheteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1942816The 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 1588336. 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.