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Kirby, Wyoming

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Thermopolis West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82430. It lies near Coal Draw. The Survey maps it on the Kirby quadrangle. 76 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,268 feet above sea level.

Kirby within Hot Springs County

On record in Kirby

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Kirby fell from 92 to 76 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
201092
202076-16 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

42 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Kirby between 1993 and 2020, burning about 272 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/undetermined24
Debris and open burning6
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Fireworks2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWashakie CountyWINCHESTER RAIL 2
5 September 2015Natural7.5 acresWorland Field OfficeCOAL DRAW
4 September 2017Railroad operations and maintenance3.1 acresWorland Field OfficeWINCHESTER RAIL
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWorland Field OfficeAXEL
22 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWorland Field OfficeLUCERNE
10 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
3 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWorland Field OfficeQUINCY FIRE
3 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hot Springs County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Kirby: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
KelleySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kirby Borrow AreaSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hot Springs County

Storms near this place

16 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kirby in 16 storm reports between 1999 and 2017: 11 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 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
June 2017Thunderstorm WindKirby-A weather station in Kirby reported a wind gust of 63 mph.
June 2015HailKirby-Pea to nickel sized hail fell just west of Kirby.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindKirby-The Hot Springs County emergency manager reported a 60 mph wind gust at Kirby.
July 2013HailKirby-Penny to nickel sized hail was reported in Kirby.
June 2007HailKirby-Hail the size of nickels reported by the public.
August 2007HailKirby-Golf ball sized hail fell to the north of Little Cottonwood Creek in northern Hot Springs County.
June 2001HailKirby-no account filed
July 2001Funnel CloudKirby-no account filed
July 2001HailKirby-no account filed
July 2001Tornado (F2)Kirby-no account filed
July 2001Flash FloodKirby-no account filed
July 2001HailKirby-no account filed
May 2000HailKirby-no account filed
May 1999HailKirby-no account filed
August 1999HailKirby-no account filed
August 1999HailKirby-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hot Springs 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
Lucerne4.8 miles8
Red Lane8.8 miles8
East Thermopolis10.9 miles8
Thermopolis11.0 miles8
Minnesela15.2 miles8
Nickelson Place19.7 miles8
Owl Creek20.5 miles12
Hamilton Dome21.0 miles12

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 KirbyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q955147The 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 1590377. 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.