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.
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
Fossil Oregon Short Line Depotlisted 2013
Haddenham Cabinlisted 2003
Lincoln County Courthouselisted 1984
J. C. Penney Historic Districtlisted 1978
J. C. Penney Houselisted 1976
US Post Office-Kemmerer Mainlisted 1987
Population over time
2 figuresKemmerer 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,656 | |
| 2020 | 2,415 | -241 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Kemmerer quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Kemmerer quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Kemmerer quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
28 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 12 acres | Lincoln County | WESTMORLAND MINE |
| 22 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kemmerer Field Office | CIGAR 2 |
| 19 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Lincoln County | OAKLY |
| 1 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | 120 acres | Kemmerer Field Office | ASPEN SPRINGS |
| 9 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kemmerer Field Office | POWER LINE |
| 25 August 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Lincoln County | 189 NORTH |
| 25 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kemmerer Field Office | FRONTIER |
| 23 August 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Kemmerer Field Office | MAGPIE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown (unverifiable) | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Unknown | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
12 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Kemmerer | $25,000 | Emergency management and trained spotters reported numerous flooded roads and basements around Kemmerer and Diamondville. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Kemmerer | - | 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 2016 | Hail | Kemmerer | - | Nickel sized hail fell in Kemmerer. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kemmerer | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Wildfire | Kemmerer | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Funnel Cloud | Kemmerer | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Kemmerer | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Kemmerer | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Wildfire | Kemmerer | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Wildfire | Kemmerer | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Kemmerer | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kemmerer | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Willow Addition | 0.5 miles | 10 | |
| Diamondville | 0.9 miles | 10 | |
| Frontier | 1.5 miles | 10 | |
| Elkol | 6.2 miles | 11 | |
| Blazon Junction | 7.5 miles | 11 | |
| Fossil | 10.0 miles | 10 | |
| Opal | 11.3 miles | 9 | |
| Sage | 22.3 miles | 10 |
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 Kemmerer | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q992087 | The 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.





