Glendo, Wyoming
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Glendo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82213. It lies near Whiskey Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Glendo quadrangle. 237 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,724 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGlendo grew from 205 to 237 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 | 205 | |
| 2020 | 237 | +32 (+16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1950 USGS Glendo quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Torrington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Torrington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Glendo quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
23 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Glendo between 1996 and 2018, burning about 491 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined | 13 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Casper Field Office | PARK |
| 6 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Casper Field Office | ELKHORN |
| 15 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 6 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Platte County | MM 97 |
| 17 August 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 11 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 150 acres | Platte County | RIDGE ROAD |
| 11 August 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | SOMEWHERE |
| 11 August 2001 | Natural | 82 acres | Casper Field Office | LONGWAY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Glendo: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ace #1 Claim | Uranium | Prospect | ||
| Cassa Area | Silica | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
33 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glendo in 33 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 27 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1997 | Hail | Glendo | $10,000 | Nickel size hail at Glendo marina. |
| August 1996 | Hail | Glendo | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Glendo | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glendo | - | Observer reported nickel sized hail and wind gusts of 60 mph. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glendo | - | Wind gust of 63 mph reported on WYDOT weather sensor at Platte/Converse County line. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Glendo | - | Half dollar sized hail reported at Orin Junction. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Glendo | - | Spotter reports golf ball sized hail falling for long duration. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Glendo | - | Nickel to quarter sized hail reported covering Interstate 25 near the Platte and Converse County line. A nearby WYDOT sensor reported zero visibility with heavy rain and wind gusts to 51 mph. |
| July 2018 | Tornado (EFU) | Glendo | - | Tornado reported southwest of Glendo with motion to the southeast. Tornado passed through open fields with no apparent damage reported so rating left as unknown. |
| May 2018 | Tornado (EFU) | Glendo | - | Tornado reported nine miles south of Glendo moving northeast through northern Platte County. Mainly open prairie grasslands made it impossible to determine a full path and any EF rating other than unknown. |
| July 2018 | Hail | Glendo | - | Ping pong ball size hail was observed east of Glendo. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Glendo | - | Half dollar size hail was reported seven miles northeast of Glendo. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Glendo | - | Golf ball size hail was observed at Glendo. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Glendo | - | Half dollar size hail was observed 12 miles south-southwest of Glendo. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Glendo | - | Ground white with hail. |
| August 2006 | Hail | Glendo | - | 3/4 to 1 inch diameter hail piled up to 4 inches deep. |
| July 2000 | Hail | Glendo | - | Hail stripped leaves and covered the ground. |
| June 1999 | Hail | Glendo | - | Nickel size hail reported 5 miles southeast of Glendo, WY |
| June 1999 | Hail | Glendo | - | 3/4 inch hail fell 25 miles west of Glendo, WY |
| June 1999 | Hail | Glendo | - | 1 inch hail reported at Glendo State Park |
| July 1997 | Lightning | Glendo | - | Fire burned 50 acres of timber on a ranch south of Horseshoe Creek and west of I-25; same fire started up again 7/26 and burned additional 150 acres of timber before containment. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Glendo | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Glendo | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Glendo | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Glendo | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Glendo | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Glendo | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Glendo | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Glendo | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Glendo | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Glendo | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glendo | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Glendo | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cassa | 7.2 miles | 15 | |
| Wendover | 14.5 miles | 15 | |
| El Rancho | 16.2 miles | 11 | |
| Meadowdale | 17.9 miles | 7 | |
| Dwyer | 18.4 miles | 14 | |
| Dwyer Junction | 18.6 miles | 14 | |
| Hartville | 20.0 miles | 15 | |
| Sunrise | 20.7 miles | 15 |
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 Glendo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1015969 | 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 1588932. 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.




