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Fontenelle, Wyoming

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Kemmerer East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83101. It stands on Slate Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fontenelle quadrangle. 5 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Fontenelle within Lincoln County

Population over time

2 figures

Fontenelle fell from 13 to 5 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
201013
20205-8 (-62%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Fontenelle between 1993 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural1

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
17 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestROWDY
29 July 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeWEEPING
25 July 2020Natural1.7 acresRock Springs Field Office86
1 July 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeSLATE CR
23 June 2001Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresRock Springs Field OfficeSCALE CG
7 May 2001Recreation and ceremony9.0 acresSeedskadee National Wildlife RefugeTEAL ISLAND

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Fontenelle: 7 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Virgin Pit (unverifiable)Phosphorus-PhosphatesUnknown
FontenelleSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
State Highway Department Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Sand and Gravel pitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fontenelle in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2004: 1 funnel cloud, 1 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
July 2004HailFontenelle-no account filed
June 1998Funnel CloudFontenelle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
La Barge20.4 miles11
Opal20.5 miles9
Viola25.7 miles10
Rocky Crossing25.9 miles8
Frontier27.9 miles10
Willow Addition28.3 miles10
Kemmerer28.6 miles10
Diamondville29.1 miles10

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 FontenelleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1942074The 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 1588605. 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.