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.
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
Fort Laramie National Historic Sitelisted 1966- Fort Laramie Three-Mile Hog Ranchlisted 1975
Population over time
2 figuresFort 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 230 | |
| 2020 | 206 | -24 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 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.
- 1896 USGS Hartville quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Hartville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Fort Laramie quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1952 USGS Fort Laramie quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Torrington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Torrington quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Torrington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Fort Laramie quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
26 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 10 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Goshen County | SHAFFFER FIRE |
| 22 August 2004 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Fort Laramie National Historic Site | LISLE |
| 20 August 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Goshen County | BIBLE CAMP LIGHTNING STRIKE |
| 9 July 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Laramie National Historic Site | PB FIRE |
| 3 July 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fort Laramie National Historic Site | ICE BREAKER |
| 25 July 2003 | Natural | 20 acres | Fort Laramie National Historic Site | LISLE 2 |
| 12 July 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Laramie National Historic Site | RUINS |
| 10 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fort Laramie National Historic Site | WALKER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
37 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Hail | Fort Laramie | - | Emergency manager shared photo via Slack of hail bigger than a half dollar. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Fort Laramie | - | Emergency manager reports quarter sized hail at RD 15 and RD 70. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Fort Laramie | - | Emergency manager reports quarter sized hail in Ft. Laramie. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Fort Laramie | - | An Emergency Manager reported golf ball sized hail 6 miles S of Fort Laramie. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Fort Laramie | - | A storm chaser measured 2.8-inch diameter hail 5 miles ESE of Fort Laramie. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Fort Laramie | - | A trained spotter reported golf ball sized hail 4 miles N of Fort Laramie. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Fort Laramie | - | A trained spotter reported 2-inch diameter hail 1 mile N of Fort Laramie. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Fort Laramie | - | A trained spotter reported golf ball sized hail at mile marker 34 on Highway 26 between Fort Laramie and Lingle. |
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Fort 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 2019 | Hail | Fort Laramie | - | Hail produced extensive crop damage in fields along Highway 26 between Fort Laramie and Lingle. |
| September 2019 | Tornado (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 2019 | Tornado (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 2018 | Hail | Fort Laramie | - | Quarter size hail was observed at Fort Laramie. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Fort Laramie | - | Ping pong ball size hail was observed south of Fort Laramie. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Fort Laramie | - | Hen egg size hail was observed in northwest Fort Laramie. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Fort Laramie | - | Tennis ball to baseball size hail was observed at Fort Laramie. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Laramie | - | Estimated 75 mph wind gusts blew down utility poles at Fort Laramie. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Fort Laramie | - | Quarter size hail was reported at Fort Laramie. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Fort Laramie | - | Nickel to quarter size hail was reported at Fort Laramie. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Fort Laramie | - | Quarter size hail was reported four miles northeast of Fort Laramie. |
| August 2016 | Hail | Fort Laramie | - | Ping pong ball size hail was reported at Fort Laramie. |
| August 2016 | Hail | Fort Laramie | - | Hen egg size hail was reported five miles northwest of Fort Laramie. Several vehicles sustained windshield damage. |
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | Fort 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 2015 | Funnel Cloud | Fort Laramie | - | A funnel cloud was observed eight miles south-southwest of Fort Laramie. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Fort Laramie | - | Quarter size hail was observed nine miles east of Guernsey Campground. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Fort Laramie | - | Quarter to ping pong ball size hail was reported in Fort Laramie. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Fort Laramie | - | Ping pong to hen egg size hail was reported southeast of Fort Laramie. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Fort Laramie | - | Penny to quarter size hail was reported near Fort Laramie. |
| July 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Fort Laramie | - | A tornado briefly touched down in open range. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Fort Laramie | - | Some windows were shattered. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Fort Laramie | - | Hail from 3/4 to 1 inch reported along track. |
| August 1993 | Hail | Fort Laramie | - | Scattered thunderstorms brought hail and gusty winds to much of eastern Wyoming during the afternoon. |
| August 2020 | Hail | Fort Laramie | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Hail | Fort Laramie | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Fort Laramie | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Fort Laramie | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Fort Laramie | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lingle | 10.5 miles | 18 | |
| Rockeagle | 14.9 miles | 16 | |
| Heldt | 17.4 miles | 18 | |
| Veteran | 18.6 miles | 12 | |
| Cottier | 18.8 miles | 18 | |
| Jay Em | 18.9 miles | 17 | |
| Torrington | 20.5 miles | 17 | |
| South Torrington | 21.1 miles | 17 |
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 Laramie | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1013486 | 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 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.







