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Leiter, Wyoming

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Sheridan census division. It lies near Cadiz Draw. The Survey maps it on the Leiter quadrangle. It stands 3,779 feet above sea level.

Leiter within Sheridan County

On record in Leiter

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Leiter between 2013 and 2017, burning about 4,176 acres in total. 1 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
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
31 August 2017Natural4,151 acresBuffalo Field OfficeCOTTONWOOD ONE
18 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use25 acresWyoming State ForestryBUFFALO RUN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sheridan County

Storms near this place

24 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leiter in 24 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 18 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind. 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 2022HailLeiter-Pea to quarter size hail was reported.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindLeiter-Some trees were snapped.
July 2019HailLeiter-Some skylights were broken.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindLeiter-Some downed tree limbs were reported.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindLeiter-Thunderstorm winds knocked down a flag pole and fence. Significant tree damage was also reported.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindLeiter-Driving rain and small hail were also reported.
June 2011HailLeiter-Extensive 1/4 to 1/2 hail was also reported.
July 2023HailLeiter-no account filed
June 2022HailLeiter-no account filed
June 2022HailLeiter-no account filed
September 2021HailLeiter-no account filed
July 2019HailLeiter-no account filed
May 2017HailLeiter-no account filed
May 2017HailLeiter-no account filed
May 2017HailLeiter-no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindLeiter-no account filed
August 2013HailLeiter-no account filed
June 2009HailLeiter-no account filed
June 2009HailLeiter-no account filed
June 2009HailLeiter-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindLeiter-no account filed
June 2001HailLeiter-no account filed
May 1996HailLeiter-no account filed
May 1996HailLeiter-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheridan 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
Kendrick3.6 miles7
Clearmont8.0 miles7
Arvada8.6 miles7
Ulm17.6 miles11
Ucross18.0 miles12
Verona21.3 miles11
Wyarno27.5 miles12
Banner32.6 miles13

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 LeiterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14714792The 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 1597382. 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.

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.