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Hoback, Wyoming

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Jackson Hole census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83001. It stands on Sawpit Creek. The Survey maps it on the Munger Mountain quadrangle. 1,276 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,879 feet above sea level.

Hoback within Teton County

Population over time

2 figures

Hoback grew from 1,176 to 1,276 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
20101,176
20201,276+100 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Hoback between 1992 and 2020, burning about 105 acres in total. 40 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
Natural40
Recreation and ceremony17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning4
Fireworks2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestTWO-TIME
8 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestTRASHY
30 September 1992Natural1.5 acresBridger-Teton National ForestWOLF
3 September 2002Naturalunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestBAILEY
3 September 2002Naturalunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestSWIFT
28 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestWOLF
27 September 2007Natural1.0 acresBridger-Teton National ForestSOUTH OF MARTIN WFU
23 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestDEER CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Teton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Hoback: 8 occurrences, 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Gold, Iron, Titanium, Metal. 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
Davis Claim (placer)Gold, Iron, Titanium, MetalProspect1870
Hoback placer occurrenceGoldOccurrencePlacer
Snake River Canyon OccurrencePhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence
Unidentified OccurrencePhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence
Unidentified OccurrencePhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence1910
Unidentified OccurrencePhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence
Unidentified OccurrencePhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence
UnknownPhosphorus-PhosphatesProspect
UnknownPhosphorus-PhosphatesProspect
Unknown (in Snake River Canyon)Phosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence

Every working recorded in Teton 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
Hoback Junction4.0 miles12
South Park9.7 miles14
Rafter J Ranch10.0 miles14
Jackson13.7 miles14
Wilson15.9 miles17
Moose Wilson Road17.1 miles17
Jack Pine18.8 miles13
Teton Village21.3 miles17

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 HobackAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q632248The 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 1600345. 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.