La Barge, Wyoming
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Kemmerer East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83123. It stands on Birch Creek. The Survey maps it on the La Barge quadrangle. 394 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,594 feet above sea level.
On record in La Barge
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
Names Hilllisted 1969
Population over time
2 figuresLa Barge fell from 551 to 394 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 | 551 | |
| 2020 | 394 | -157 (-28%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1955 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS La Barge quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1982 USGS Fontenelle Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of La Barge between 1994 and 2018, burning about 82 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 July 1994 | Natural | 12 acres | Rock Springs Field Office | LABARGE |
| 11 July 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Rock Springs Field Office | MILLER MTN |
| 25 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 55 acres | Pinedale Field Office | RAFF |
| 27 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Pinedale Field Office | LABARGE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of La Barge: 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Government | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Housley | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Sims/LaBarge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand and Gravel pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Barge in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 2 flood, 2 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2013 | Flash Flood | La Barge | $1,500,000 | Heavy rain from thunderstorms brought flooding and mudslides in, and to the south of, LaBarge. The flooding damaged 20 homes located mainly in the southwest portion of the town. Much of the flooding was confined to basements of homes and at least one church. High water scoured the channel of Birch Creek at the north end of town and exposed water and sewer pipes.||To the south of town, approximately four separate large channels along with many smaller rivulets flooded US Highway 189 between mileposts 77 and 81. The Wyoming Highway Patrol reported a mudslide near milepost 78 around Muddy Creek at 1651MST. Farther north near Names Hill another small canyon deposited mud and rock across the highway and onto private land. Five homes were damaged in the county, one of which was declared a total loss. Multiple sections of fence line were either washed away or completely buried by debris. Mud and rock plugged culverts along the highway and also buried culvert inlets. This set the stage for additional flooding across US Highway 189 over the course of the next several days. |
| July 2011 | Flood | La Barge | $75,000 | High water on the Green River near LaBarge above Fontenelle Reservoir caused the inundation of County Road 318 and lowland areas in the broad river plain. |
| June 2017 | Flood | La Barge | - | High water was reported to have completely washed out several BLM and USFS roads near the Green River in northern Lincoln County north of the Fontenelle Reservoir. |
| September 2013 | Flash Flood | La Barge | - | Culverts that were plugged and buried by mud and rock from a flash flood on September 12, were unable to handle another deluge of water on the afternoon of Saturday, September 14. The heavy rain caused mudslides that covered portions of US Highway 189 south of LaBarge between mileposts 80 and 82. The road was closed at 1700MST Saturday to enable the Wyoming Department of Transportation to clean-up the debris. The road was opened the morning of September 15. |
| June 1997 | Funnel Cloud | La Barge | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Tornado (F0) | La Barge | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Viola | 9.8 miles | 10 | |
| Fontenelle | 20.4 miles | 9 | |
| Opal | 34.7 miles | 9 | |
| Frontier | 35.8 miles | 10 | |
| Willow Addition | 36.7 miles | 10 | |
| Kemmerer | 37.1 miles | 10 | |
| Diamondville | 38.0 miles | 10 | |
| Fossil | 41.6 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 La Barge | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1029759 | 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 1590442. 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.




