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Frannie, Wyoming

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the North Big Horn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82423. The Survey maps it on the Frannie quadrangle. 145 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,216 feet above sea level.

Frannie within Big Horn County

Population over time

2 figures

Frannie fell from 157 to 145 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
2010157
2020145-12 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Frannie between 2002 and 2020, burning about 20 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Debris and open burning1
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
8 August 2018Natural1.5 acresCuster Gallatin National ForestBENT SPRINGS
25 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBillings Field OfficeBEAR CANYON RD 3
25 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresBillings Field OfficeBEAR CANYON RD 2
24 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresBillings Field OfficeBEAR CANYON RD 1
5 May 2017Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresBighorn County26
5 May 2017Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreBillings Field OfficeSOUTH SAGE
24 May 2002Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMiles City Field OfficeLOST
9 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreBighorn CountyR.R. FIRE

Every fire recorded in Big Horn County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Frannie: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bentonite. 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
Dry GulchBentoniteUnknown
Gov'T Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Big Horn County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frannie in 2 storm reports in 2018: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2018HailFrannie-A severe thunderstorm crossed the border from Montana and brought up to golf ball size hail across much of northern Big Horn County. Lovell was the hardest hit community where there was widespread damage. One official estimated that over 60 percent of the homes had damage, mainly from damaged siding and broken windows from the hail bring driven by winds over 70 mph. Large hail was also occurred in Frannie and Cowley.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindFrannie-A severe thunderstorm brought high winds through much of northern Big Horn County. The strongest wind gust recorded was 79 mph at the Greybull Airport. Other notable gusts included 62 mph at Cowley and 59 mph at Frannie and Lovell. The strong wind combined with golf ball size hail to produce widespread damage across the city of Lovell.

Every storm recorded in Big Horn 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
Deaver5.7 miles6
Cowley10.0 miles8
Byron13.4 miles7
Lovell15.3 miles9
Kane23.8 miles8
Emblem34.2 miles7
Burlington37.4 miles8
Otto43.2 miles7

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 FrannieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1028462The 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 1588719. 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.