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Farson, Wyoming

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Rock Springs North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82932. It stands on Little Sandy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Farson quadrangle. 272 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,594 feet above sea level.

Farson within Sweetwater County

On record in Farson

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Farson fell from 313 to 272 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
2010313
2020272-41 (-13%)

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

10 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Farson between 2019 and 2020, burning about 13 acres in total. None 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1

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
4 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSweetwater CountyAPPLEQUIST FIRE
6 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSweetwater CountyTHOMAN FIRE
20 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSweetwater CountyHAYSTACK BUTTE
11 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreSweetwater CountyTHOMAN 2
9 July 2020Fireworks2.0 acresSweetwater CountyMITCHES
9 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSweetwater CountyFARSON
13 July 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreSweetwater CountyPOOR FARM FIRE
10 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSweetwater CountyMULE TRAIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sweetwater County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Farson: 22 unknowns, 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
ApplequistSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
State Highway DeptSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
State Highway DeptSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Sweetwater County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farson in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindFarson-The WYDOT weather sensor at Farson reported wind gusts as high as 70 mph.
July 2025Tornado (EF0)Farson-The public reported a landspout tornado to the north of Highway 28 to the west of Farson, including a picture of the tornado in contact with the ground. The tornado remained over open country and caused no known damage.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindFarson-A 59 mph wind gust was reported at Farson.
April 2000Funnel CloudFarson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sweetwater 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
Eden4.1 miles8
Winton (historical)29.0 miles11
Dines (historical)30.1 miles11
Stansbury31.2 miles11
Reliance33.1 miles11
North Rock Springs33.5 miles9
South Superior34.8 miles10
Clearview Acres37.6 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.

Wikipedia article on FarsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1942040The 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 1588389. 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.