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James Town, Wyoming

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Green River North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82935. It lies near Greasewood Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Peru quadrangle. 455 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,168 feet above sea level.

James Town within Sweetwater County

Population over time

2 figures

James Town fell from 536 to 455 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
2010536
2020455-81 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

53 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of James Town between 2002 and 2020, burning about 336 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined21
Natural7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Fireworks6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2020Railroad operations and maintenance50 acresSweetwater CountyMM76
19 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresSweetwater CountyMCKINNON FIRE
14 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSweetwater CountyMM 82
11 September 2009Fireworks2.5 acresRock Springs Field OfficeCEMETERY
4 August 2020Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSweetwater CountyMM1 HARBORLITE
3 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSweetwater CountyMM67
17 August 2002Natural200 acresRock Springs Field OfficeTROUT CRK
11 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSweetwater CountyMM62

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sweetwater County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of James Town: 10 past producers, 3 unknowns, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sodium, Sodium Carbonate, Silica. 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
Diamond Alkali Co., Butler Well No. 1SodiumProspectTrona
State Highway DeptSilicaProducer
Western Alkali Company wellsSodium CarbonatePast ProducerTrona
Acme PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Green River Pit & Plant LayosSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
State Highway Department Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
State Highway Department Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
State Highway DeptSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
State Highway DeptSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
State Highway DeptSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sweetwater County

Storms near this place

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names James Town in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2001: 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
April 2000Tornado (F1)James Town$30,000no account filed
April 2001Tornado (F1)James Town-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sweetwater 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
Riovista0.3 miles9
Green River3.2 miles10
Bryan8.8 miles9
Kanda9.3 miles8
Purple Sage10.2 miles8
Clearview Acres12.8 miles8
North Rock Springs14.6 miles9
Blairtown15.2 miles13

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 James TownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1942352The 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 1590051. 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.