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Kemmerer, Wyoming

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Kemmerer East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83101. The Survey maps it on the Kemmerer quadrangle. 2,415 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,949 feet above sea level.

Kemmerer within Lincoln County

On record in Kemmerer

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 6 records

Population over time

2 figures

Kemmerer fell from 2,656 to 2,415 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
20102,656
20202,415-241 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Kemmerer between 1992 and 2020, burning about 236 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined10
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural4
Debris and open burning4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1
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
3 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution12 acresLincoln CountyWESTMORLAND MINE
22 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKemmerer Field OfficeCIGAR 2
19 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLincoln CountyOAKLY
1 September 2018Debris and open burning120 acresKemmerer Field OfficeASPEN SPRINGS
9 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKemmerer Field OfficePOWER LINE
25 August 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresLincoln County189 NORTH
25 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKemmerer Field OfficeFRONTIER
23 August 2015Naturalunder an acreKemmerer Field OfficeMAGPIE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Kemmerer: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Unknown (unverifiable)Phosphorus-PhosphatesUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kemmerer in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 5 hail, 3 wildfire, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2021Flash FloodKemmerer$25,000Emergency management and trained spotters reported numerous flooded roads and basements around Kemmerer and Diamondville.
June 2016HailKemmerer-A severe thunderstorm dropped hail the size of quarters and ping pong balls in Kemmerer and at the Port of Entry on the outskirts of town.
August 2016HailKemmerer-Nickel sized hail fell in Kemmerer.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindKemmerer-no account filed
September 2002WildfireKemmerer-no account filed
June 2001Funnel CloudKemmerer-no account filed
September 2001HailKemmerer-no account filed
September 2001HailKemmerer-no account filed
September 2000WildfireKemmerer-no account filed
August 2000WildfireKemmerer-no account filed
June 1996HailKemmerer-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindKemmerer-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Willow Addition0.5 miles10
Diamondville0.9 miles10
Frontier1.5 miles10
Elkol6.2 miles11
Blazon Junction7.5 miles11
Fossil10.0 miles10
Opal11.3 miles9
Sage22.3 miles10

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 KemmererAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q992087The 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 1590317. 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.