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Fort Washakie, 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 82514. It stands on South Fork Little Wind River. The Survey maps it on the Fort Washakie quadrangle. 1,650 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,571 feet above sea level.

Fort Washakie within Fremont County

On record in Fort Washakie

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Fort Washakie fell from 1,759 to 1,650 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
20101,759
20201,650-109 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

423 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 423 fires within 5 miles of Fort Washakie between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,833 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 20 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 burning212
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Fireworks46
Smoking32
Natural23
Arson/incendiarism20
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Recreation and ceremony12
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1

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
9 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreWind River AgencyCONEHEAD
7 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreWind River Agency102 NORTH FORK
6 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreWind River Agency48 SHIPTON LANE
5 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWind River AgencyGROVE
5 September 2012Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresWind River AgencySAND PIT FIRE
5 September 2002Natural2.0 acresWind River AgencySAGE CREEK
5 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWind River AgencyMULTIFIRES
3 September 1999Natural1.0 acresWind River AgencyLITTLEWIND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont 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 Fort Washakie: 6 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fort Washakie Hot SpringGeothermalUnknown
Wind River Indian Reservation No.1UraniumOccurrence
Ethete # 1Gypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Ethete #2Gypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Sage Creek #1Gypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Sage Creek #2Gypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Sage Creek #3Gypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Sage Creek AnticlineGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteProspect
Wind River Mtn Front #6Gypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Fremont 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
Wind River1.4 miles10
Ethete6.0 miles8
Boulder Flats7.8 miles10
Milford10.4 miles10
Johnstown12.3 miles9
Lander14.4 miles12
Morton14.6 miles9
Wyopo14.6 miles12

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 WashakieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1955723The 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 1609092. 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.