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Hillsdale, Wyoming

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Pine Bluffs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82060. The Survey maps it on the Hillsdale quadrangle. 40 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,640 feet above sea level.

Hillsdale within Laramie County

Population over time

2 figures

Hillsdale fell from 47 to 40 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
201047
202040-7 (-15%)

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

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Hillsdale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 765 acres in total. None 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning2
Fireworks1

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
12 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
4 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
25 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined450 acresLaramie CountyCHALK BLUFF
4 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreLaramie CountyUS 30 FIRE
4 July 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandHERRICK CABIN #2
1 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
30 June 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
29 February 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Laramie County

Storms near this place

35 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hillsdale in 35 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 24 hail, 5 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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
May 1999HailHillsdale$10,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindHillsdale-UPR site near Hillsdale gusted 65 MPH with storm.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHillsdale-Mesonet station UP015 5.7 W Burns.
September 2021Flash FloodHillsdale-Parking lot flooded at the Burns Brothers Truck Stop near Interstate 80.
August 2019Tornado (EFU)Hillsdale-Images and eye-witness reports confirmed the presence of a short-lived landspout tornado formed by thunderstorm outflow winds east of Cheyenne. The landspout tornado in its life cycle moved southeastward crossing Interstate 80 and knocking over a wind break fence. Given the lack of a damage indicator for the fence and no other damage reported, the landspout tornado is listed as an EF-unknown with path and width estimated.
August 2019HailHillsdale-Hail damaged skywindows of area residential building along with damaging vehicle windshields and gutters.
August 2019Flash FloodHillsdale-Several inches of water was reported flowing over roadways along Road 212 between Roads 140 and 141.
August 2019Flash FloodHillsdale-Drainage ditches in rural Laramie County were overrunning into area fields and roadways. Photo forwarded to office showed flood waters pooling and encroaching on an area resident.
May 2018Flash FloodHillsdale-Three to four inches deep of rapidly, running water over County Road 142 south of County Road 212.
August 2018HailHillsdale-Hail was observed on Interstate 80 near the Hillsdale exit.
June 2018HailHillsdale-Nickel to quarter size hail was observed at Hillsdale.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindHillsdale-Estimated wind gusts of 60 mph were observed at Hillsdale.
August 2016HailHillsdale-Quarter size hail was reported at Hillsdale.
July 2016HailHillsdale-Quarter size hail was reported three miles southeast of Hillsdale.
July 2016HailHillsdale-Quarter size hail was reported at Hillsdale.
July 2016HailHillsdale-Quarter size hail was reported on Interstate 80 two miles south of Hillsdale.
July 2016HailHillsdale-Hail as large as ping pong balls was reported at the Hillsdale Interstate 80 exit east of Cheyenne.
June 2014HailHillsdale-Quarter to ping pong ball size hail three miles north of Hillsdale dented vehicles and stripped leaves off trees.
June 2013HailHillsdale-Dime to quarter size hail was reported near Hillsdale.
June 2012HailHillsdale-Quarter sized hail was reported by a NWS employee.
June 2012HailHillsdale-A spotter 22 miles northeast of Cheyenne reported quarter sized hail.
July 2011Flash FloodHillsdale-Flooding over the access road between Interstate 80 mile markers 380 and 381, as well as the intersection of Highway 142 and the access raod.
August 2009HailHillsdale-Most of the hail along track was around 1 inch in diameter.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHillsdale-Microburst winds blew shingles off a roof.
May 1999HailHillsdale-1 inch hail fell near Hillsdale, WY
June 1997Tornado (F0)Hillsdale-Brief touchdown in open country.
July 2024HailHillsdale-no account filed
June 2021HailHillsdale-no account filed
May 2019HailHillsdale-no account filed
August 2019HailHillsdale-no account filed
August 2019HailHillsdale-no account filed
July 2018HailHillsdale-no account filed
August 2009HailHillsdale-no account filed
August 2002HailHillsdale-no account filed
September 2001HailHillsdale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Laramie 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
Durham6.3 miles13
Burns6.4 miles9
Arcola7.8 miles9
Egbert12.1 miles9
Carpenter12.9 miles9
Altvan13.3 miles12
Ranchettes16.6 miles17
Tracy17.5 miles8

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 HillsdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4408113The 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 1589581. 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.