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Johnstown, Wyoming

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1962. It stands in the Wind River Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82516. It lies near Mule Butte. The Survey maps it on the Mule Butte quadrangle. 227 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,259 feet above sea level.

Johnstown within Fremont County

Population over time

2 figures

Johnstown fell from 242 to 227 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
2010242
2020227-15 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

79 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Johnstown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 337 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 were 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
Debris and open burning28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Smoking7
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Fireworks5
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 1998Smokingunder an acreWind River AgencySOUTHFORK
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
20 September 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWind River AgencySOUTHFORK2
17 September 2009Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWind River AgencyANTONE
8 August 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
7 August 2020Natural13 acresWind River AgencyHELLS HILL 2
5 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresLander Field OfficeKINNEAR
5 August 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Johnstown: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
UnknownGoldProspect

Every working 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
Kinnear2.6 miles8
Morton6.9 miles9
Ethete7.5 miles8
Pavillion8.7 miles8
Fort Washakie12.3 miles8
Wind River13.3 miles10
Boulder Flats15.1 miles10
Midvale15.1 miles9

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 JohnstownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1942463The 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 1853205. 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.