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Jeffrey City, Wyoming

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Jeffrey City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82520. The Survey maps it on the Jeffrey City quadrangle. 47 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,335 feet above sea level.

Jeffrey City within Fremont County

Population over time

2 figures

Jeffrey City fell from 58 to 47 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
201058
202047-11 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Jeffrey City between 1994 and 2016, burning about 7 acres in total. 7 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
Natural7

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
1 September 1996Naturalunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeWILLOW #2
16 August 1994Natural2.5 acresRawlins Field OfficeGRANITE 1
16 August 1994Naturalunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeGRANITE 2
14 August 2016Natural3.0 acresLander Field OfficeSWEETWATER
6 July 2001Naturalunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeJEFFERY CI
4 July 2007Naturalunder an acreLander Field OfficeNIGHT RIDER
23 July 2002Naturalunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeSWEETWATER

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Jeffrey City: 5 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Semiprecious Gemstone, Silica, Sulfur, Uranium. 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
Lucky Strike ClaimSemiprecious Gemstone, SilicaOccurrence
Western Nuclear MillSulfur, UraniumPast Producer
Allied Group Dead Horse 29UraniumOccurrence
EchoUraniumProspect
Jeffrey City Mine (Facility)UraniumPast Producer
Pay Dirt North InclineUraniumPast Producer
Split Rock MillUraniumProducer
Split Rock MillUraniumPast Producer
Split Rock MineUraniumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this place

10 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jeffrey City in 10 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 wildfire, 1 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
July 2025Thunderstorm WindJeffrey City-A 75 mph wind gust was reported north of Bairoil.
August 2025Flash FloodJeffrey City-The public reported ponding water in low spots throughout Jeffrey City. Radar estimates showed 1.0 to 1.5 inches of rain falling on the town of Jeffrey City within a 1 hour period, with up to 2 inches falling west of town. Rainfall rates were estimated to be as high as 6 inches per hour.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindJeffrey City-Thunderstorm outflow produced a 63 mph wind gust at Camp Creek RAWS in the Green Mountains.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindJeffrey City-A strong thunderstorm produced a 65 mph wind gust at an automated sensor on Green Mountain in Fremont County.
June 2009Tornado (EF0)Jeffrey City-A weak tornado was seen and photographed for about four minutes over open country in the Great Divide Basin. The tornado occurred in association with a thunderstorm moving east-southeast near the Fremont-Sweetwater County line.
June 2003HailJeffrey City-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindJeffrey City-no account filed
August 2002WildfireJeffrey City-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindJeffrey City-no account filed
September 2000HailJeffrey City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fremont 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
Myersville (historical)15.5 miles8
Sweetwater Crossing18.9 miles9
Sweetwater Station19.2 miles9
Sand Draw26.2 miles11
Kotey Place44.1 miles11
Miners Delight45.3 miles12
Saint Stephens46.0 miles10
Moneta46.3 miles7

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 Jeffrey CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q608640The 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 1590071. 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.