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Little America, Wyoming

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Green River North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82929. The Survey maps it on the Little America quadrangle. 47 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,424 feet above sea level.

Little America within Sweetwater County

Population over time

2 figures

Little America fell from 68 to 47 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
201068
202047-21 (-31%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Little America between 2000 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. None 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/undetermined2
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
4 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeLITTLE AMERICA
31 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresKemmerer Field Office68
26 March 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sweetwater County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Little America: 6 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sodium, Sodium Carbonate, Sodium, Soda Ash, Sodium Carbonate. 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
Green River trona depositSodium, Soda Ash, Sodium CarbonateProducer1938, 1953
John Hay, Jr., Well No. 1Sodium CarbonateProspect1938
Granger No. 2 drill holeSodiumProspectTrona
Union Pacific Well No. 1SodiumProspect1940
Union Pacific Well No. 4SodiumProspect1942
Westvaco Well No. 4SodiumProspect1948
Westvaco Well No. 8SodiumProspect1954

Every working recorded in Sweetwater 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
Granger Junction2.9 miles8
Granger6.8 miles8
Bryan9.6 miles9
James Town18.2 miles9
Riovista18.4 miles9
Green River20.8 miles10
Kanda27.4 miles8
Purple Sage28.4 miles8

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 Little AmericaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q979816The 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 1590725. 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.