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.
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
BMU Bridge over Wind Riverlisted 1985
Faith Halllisted 1971
Population over time
2 figuresEthete 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,553 | |
| 2020 | 1,393 | -160 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1951 USGS Ethete quadrangle1:24000
- 1955 USGS Thermopolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Thermopolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Ethete quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Thermopolis quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
542 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 283 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 67 |
| Fireworks | 52 |
| Smoking | 38 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 35 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 18 |
| Natural | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Other causes | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wind River Agency | 820 ETHETE RD |
| 9 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wind River Agency | 117 17 MILE |
| 7 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Wind River Agency | TWOSPOT |
| 6 September 2015 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 2.5 acres | Wind River Agency | LONE BEAR LANE |
| 6 September 2005 | Smoking | under an acre | Wind River Agency | WHITE |
| 5 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wind River Agency | GROVE |
| 5 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 7.7 acres | Wind River Agency | PIT #2 |
| 5 September 2002 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Wind River Agency | SAGE CREEK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Washakie Hot Spring | Geothermal | Unknown | ||
| Wind River Indian Reservation No.1 | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Ethete # 1 | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Unknown | ||
| Ethete #2 | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Unknown |
Storms near this place
4 since 2015Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2021 | Hail | Ethete | - | A former NWS employee reported one inch diameter hail in Ethete. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Ethete | - | An off duty NWS employee reported nickel size hail along Highway 137 on the Wind River Reservation. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Ethete | - | 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 2015 | Hail | Ethete | - | The public posted a picture on Facebook of half dollar sized hail in Ethete. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Washakie | 6.0 miles | 8 | |
| Wind River | 6.5 miles | 10 | |
| Johnstown | 7.5 miles | 9 | |
| Boulder Flats | 7.9 miles | 10 | |
| Kinnear | 10.1 miles | 8 | |
| Milford | 10.3 miles | 10 | |
| Morton | 12.1 miles | 9 | |
| Wyopo | 12.5 miles | 12 |
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 Ethete | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1942816 | 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 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.




