Manderson, Wyoming
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the South Big Horn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82432. It lies near Schoolhouse Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Manderson quadrangle. 88 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,891 feet above sea level.
On record in Manderson
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
Rairden Bridgelisted 1985
Population over time
2 figuresManderson fell from 114 to 88 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 | 114 | |
| 2020 | 88 | -26 (-23%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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 Sheridan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Manderson quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Worland quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
38 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Manderson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 316 acres in total. 5 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 | 19 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Worland Field Office | STERLING |
| 21 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 1 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Bighorn County | ROAD RIGHT OF WAY FIRE |
| 13 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 212 acres | Worland Field Office | COWBOY |
| 1 August 2018 | Natural | 10 acres | Worland Field Office | BIG HORN CANAL |
| 6 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 26 acres | Worland Field Office | LANE 31 AND A HALF |
| 5 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Bighorn County | HWY 31 FIRE |
| 27 July 2018 | Natural | 20 acres | Bighorn County | 2018-0018 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Manderson: 1 unknown. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valley Ranch | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
7 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manderson in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2018: 3 hail, 3 flood, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manderson | $75,000 | A gust front developed ahead of a line of thunderstorms moving northward through the Bighorn Basin. Very strong winds developed along a line from Manderson northward to Greybull. At the Greybull airport, a wind gust of 78 mph was recorded before the power failed. In Basin. 15 to 20 trees were downed or uprooted, some falling on houses and power lines. In addition, a roof was blown off of a building and a power pole was snapped. In Greybull, numerous trees were uprooted. One tree fell on a house, causing some structural damage. Another tree was uprooted at a motel. |
| February 2017 | Flood | Manderson | - | Ice jams flowing northward out of Washakie County caused flooding in portions of Big Horn County along the Big Horn River from Manderson to Basin and north to Greybull. The flooding was mainly restricted to low lying areas along the river and caused little to no property damage. |
| June 2017 | Flood | Manderson | - | Emergency Managers reported flooding along the Big Horn River near Manderson. The flooding remained over low lying areas and caused no damage. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Manderson | - | The Big Horn County sheriff reported hail from the size of nickels up to the size of Ping Pong balls. |
| June 2011 | Flood | Manderson | - | Heavy rain across eastern portions of the Big Horn Basin generated a rapid rise on local rivers. Both the Big Horn and Nowood rivers produced flooding of agricultural lands across southern Big Horn County. Hardest hit areas were in the vicinity of Lane 42 and Lane 50. At least one farmer reported flooding across 25 to 35 acres. The river gauge reached 10.78 feet at Basin, rising over two feet in 24 hours ending Friday morning, June 10. This reading topped the previous record of 10.49 feet back in 1991. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Manderson | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Manderson | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basin | 8.6 miles | 7 | |
| Greybull | 15.9 miles | 7 | |
| Reeves Corner | 18.2 miles | 16 | |
| Flitners Corner | 18.8 miles | 16 | |
| Otto | 18.9 miles | 7 | |
| Hyattville | 19.2 miles | 9 | |
| Shell | 20.8 miles | 16 | |
| Burlington | 27.7 miles | 8 |
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 Manderson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q371393 | 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 1609121. 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.




