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.
Population over time
2 figuresHillsdale 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 47 | |
| 2020 | 40 | -7 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1954 USGS Cheyenne quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Cheyenne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Hillsdale quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Cheyenne quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
10 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 4 August 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 25 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 450 acres | Laramie County | CHALK BLUFF |
| 4 July 2020 | Fireworks | under an acre | Laramie County | US 30 FIRE |
| 4 July 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | HERRICK CABIN #2 |
| 1 July 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 30 June 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 29 February 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
35 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1999 | Hail | Hillsdale | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsdale | - | UPR site near Hillsdale gusted 65 MPH with storm. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsdale | - | Mesonet station UP015 5.7 W Burns. |
| September 2021 | Flash Flood | Hillsdale | - | Parking lot flooded at the Burns Brothers Truck Stop near Interstate 80. |
| August 2019 | Tornado (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 2019 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | Hail damaged skywindows of area residential building along with damaging vehicle windshields and gutters. |
| August 2019 | Flash Flood | Hillsdale | - | Several inches of water was reported flowing over roadways along Road 212 between Roads 140 and 141. |
| August 2019 | Flash Flood | Hillsdale | - | 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 2018 | Flash Flood | Hillsdale | - | Three to four inches deep of rapidly, running water over County Road 142 south of County Road 212. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | Hail was observed on Interstate 80 near the Hillsdale exit. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | Nickel to quarter size hail was observed at Hillsdale. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsdale | - | Estimated wind gusts of 60 mph were observed at Hillsdale. |
| August 2016 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | Quarter size hail was reported at Hillsdale. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | Quarter size hail was reported three miles southeast of Hillsdale. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | Quarter size hail was reported at Hillsdale. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | Quarter size hail was reported on Interstate 80 two miles south of Hillsdale. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | Hail as large as ping pong balls was reported at the Hillsdale Interstate 80 exit east of Cheyenne. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | Quarter to ping pong ball size hail three miles north of Hillsdale dented vehicles and stripped leaves off trees. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | Dime to quarter size hail was reported near Hillsdale. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | Quarter sized hail was reported by a NWS employee. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | A spotter 22 miles northeast of Cheyenne reported quarter sized hail. |
| July 2011 | Flash Flood | Hillsdale | - | 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 2009 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | Most of the hail along track was around 1 inch in diameter. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsdale | - | Microburst winds blew shingles off a roof. |
| May 1999 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | 1 inch hail fell near Hillsdale, WY |
| June 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Hillsdale | - | Brief touchdown in open country. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | 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.
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 Hillsdale | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4408113 | 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 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.



