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Grover, Wyoming

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Afton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83122. It stands on Astle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Grover quadrangle. 481 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,148 feet above sea level.

Grover within Lincoln County

Population over time

2 figures

Grover grew from 147 to 481 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
2010147
2020481+334 (+227%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Grover between 1992 and 2020, burning about 25 acres in total. 11 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
Recreation and ceremony11
Natural11
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestWATERCAN
6 August 2000Naturalunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestBEAR TRAP
5 August 2013Naturalunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestSWIFT
29 August 2007Naturalunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestLOWER WILLOW
27 August 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestSPACE CADET
21 August 1992Naturalunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestTURNERVILLE
20 August 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestC.C.C.
18 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreLincoln County238

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Grover: 3 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Sulfur, 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
Auburn Area Hot SpringsSulfur, GeothermalOccurrencehot springs deposit
Unknown (in Swift Creek area)Phosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence
Unknown (on Willow Creek)Phosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence
Call Gravel Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grover in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2011: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
August 2011HailGrover$50,000One inch diameter hail dented vehicles, broke a few windows, and punched holes in the siding of some homes around Grover.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindGrover-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Auburn3.5 miles12
Afton4.6 miles9
Turnerville5.0 miles9
Bedford7.4 miles9
Osmond7.5 miles9
Fairview7.5 miles9
Thayne9.6 miles14
Smoot11.9 miles9

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 GroverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q288841The 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 1600129. 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.