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Fort Laramie, Wyoming

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Torrington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82212. It stands on Pine Ridge Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Laramie quadrangle. 206 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,239 feet above sea level.

Fort Laramie within Goshen County

On record in Fort Laramie

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

Fort Laramie fell from 230 to 206 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
2010230
2020206-24 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

26 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Fort Laramie between 1992 and 2020, burning about 112 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined10
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks2
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
15 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use15 acresGoshen CountySHAFFFER FIRE
22 August 2004Natural1.0 acresFort Laramie National Historic SiteLISLE
20 August 2019Natural1.0 acresGoshen CountyBIBLE CAMP LIGHTNING STRIKE
9 July 1995Naturalunder an acreFort Laramie National Historic SitePB FIRE
3 July 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFort Laramie National Historic SiteICE BREAKER
25 July 2003Natural20 acresFort Laramie National Historic SiteLISLE 2
12 July 1994Naturalunder an acreFort Laramie National Historic SiteRUINS
10 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFort Laramie National Historic SiteWALKER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Goshen County

Storms near this place

37 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Laramie in 37 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 30 hail, 3 tornado, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
June 2025HailFort Laramie-Emergency manager shared photo via Slack of hail bigger than a half dollar.
June 2025HailFort Laramie-Emergency manager reports quarter sized hail at RD 15 and RD 70.
June 2025HailFort Laramie-Emergency manager reports quarter sized hail in Ft. Laramie.
July 2023HailFort Laramie-An Emergency Manager reported golf ball sized hail 6 miles S of Fort Laramie.
September 2023HailFort Laramie-A storm chaser measured 2.8-inch diameter hail 5 miles ESE of Fort Laramie.
September 2023HailFort Laramie-A trained spotter reported golf ball sized hail 4 miles N of Fort Laramie.
September 2023HailFort Laramie-A trained spotter reported 2-inch diameter hail 1 mile N of Fort Laramie.
September 2023HailFort Laramie-A trained spotter reported golf ball sized hail at mile marker 34 on Highway 26 between Fort Laramie and Lingle.
June 2020Flash FloodFort Laramie-Portions of Deer Creek Road was closed due to high rushing water as heavy rains filled the banks of Cherry Creek and made road passage impossible.
July 2019HailFort Laramie-Hail produced extensive crop damage in fields along Highway 26 between Fort Laramie and Lingle.
September 2019Tornado (EFU)Fort Laramie-Observer noted wedge shaped tornado moving across the high plains from Platte County into Goshen County. Given the terrain tornado was over and lack of visible evidence, the tornado will remain rated as unknown with estimated width measurement.
September 2019Tornado (EF2)Fort Laramie-During the course of the tornadic supercell thunderstorm, several storm chasers and emergency managers were reporting the sighting of a wedge-shaped tornado moving across the high plains. During the lifetime of the tornado, videos submitted to the office referenced multi-vortex tornadoes and various satellite tornadoes as it neared and eventually passed over United States Highway 85. Several buildings were damaged in the path of the twister along with various lifestock and wild animals killed by flying debris. Damage at one of the residences was equivalent to EF-2 damage. Given the sparse and remote areas that the tornado passed through, path length and width are at best an estimate given that the tornado path was discontinuous and at time impossible to investigate given private land and no road access.
May 2018HailFort Laramie-Quarter size hail was observed at Fort Laramie.
May 2018HailFort Laramie-Ping pong ball size hail was observed south of Fort Laramie.
June 2017HailFort Laramie-Hen egg size hail was observed in northwest Fort Laramie.
June 2017HailFort Laramie-Tennis ball to baseball size hail was observed at Fort Laramie.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindFort Laramie-Estimated 75 mph wind gusts blew down utility poles at Fort Laramie.
June 2016HailFort Laramie-Quarter size hail was reported at Fort Laramie.
May 2016HailFort Laramie-Nickel to quarter size hail was reported at Fort Laramie.
April 2016HailFort Laramie-Quarter size hail was reported four miles northeast of Fort Laramie.
August 2016HailFort Laramie-Ping pong ball size hail was reported at Fort Laramie.
August 2016HailFort Laramie-Hen egg size hail was reported five miles northwest of Fort Laramie. Several vehicles sustained windshield damage.
August 2016Flash FloodFort Laramie-Flash flooding occurred two to three miles southeast of Fort Laramie, with debris reported on US Highway 26 and up to the fence line. The railroad approach east of Fort Laramie was nearly washed out.
June 2015Funnel CloudFort Laramie-A funnel cloud was observed eight miles south-southwest of Fort Laramie.
June 2015HailFort Laramie-Quarter size hail was observed nine miles east of Guernsey Campground.
July 2013HailFort Laramie-Quarter to ping pong ball size hail was reported in Fort Laramie.
June 2013HailFort Laramie-Ping pong to hen egg size hail was reported southeast of Fort Laramie.
June 2013HailFort Laramie-Penny to quarter size hail was reported near Fort Laramie.
July 2011Tornado (EF0)Fort Laramie-A tornado briefly touched down in open range.
August 2011HailFort Laramie-Some windows were shattered.
June 2009HailFort Laramie-Hail from 3/4 to 1 inch reported along track.
August 1993HailFort Laramie-Scattered thunderstorms brought hail and gusty winds to much of eastern Wyoming during the afternoon.
August 2020HailFort Laramie-no account filed
August 2020HailFort Laramie-no account filed
July 2019HailFort Laramie-no account filed
September 2019HailFort Laramie-no account filed
June 2010HailFort Laramie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Goshen 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
Lingle10.5 miles18
Rockeagle14.9 miles16
Heldt17.4 miles18
Veteran18.6 miles12
Cottier18.8 miles18
Jay Em18.9 miles17
Torrington20.5 miles17
South Torrington21.1 miles17

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 Fort LaramieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1013486The 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 1588642. 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.

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.