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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.

Manderson within Big Horn County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Manderson 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.

YearPeople Change
2010114
202088-26 (-23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

38 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined19
Natural5
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Fireworks2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
7 September 2001Naturalunder an acreWorland Field OfficeSTERLING
21 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
1 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresBighorn CountyROAD RIGHT OF WAY FIRE
13 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined212 acresWorland Field OfficeCOWBOY
1 August 2018Natural10 acresWorland Field OfficeBIG HORN CANAL
6 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined26 acresWorland Field OfficeLANE 31 AND A HALF
5 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBighorn CountyHWY 31 FIRE
27 July 2018Natural20 acresBighorn County2018-0018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Big Horn County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Valley RanchSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Big Horn County

Storms near this place

7 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2018Thunderstorm WindManderson$75,000A 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 2017FloodManderson-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 2017FloodManderson-Emergency Managers reported flooding along the Big Horn River near Manderson. The flooding remained over low lying areas and caused no damage.
June 2017HailManderson-The Big Horn County sheriff reported hail from the size of nickels up to the size of Ping Pong balls.
June 2011FloodManderson-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 2005HailManderson-no account filed
July 1997HailManderson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Big Horn 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
Basin8.6 miles7
Greybull15.9 miles7
Reeves Corner18.2 miles16
Flitners Corner18.8 miles16
Otto18.9 miles7
Hyattville19.2 miles9
Shell20.8 miles16
Burlington27.7 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 MandersonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q371393The 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.