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Morton, Wyoming

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1962. It stands in the Wind River Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82516. The Survey maps it on the Morton quadrangle. It stands 5,515 feet above sea level.

Morton within Fremont County

On record in Morton

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 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

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Morton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1
Fireworks1

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
9 September 1998Smokingunder an acreWind River AgencySOUTHFORK
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFremont County11400 US HWY 26
29 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFremont County11000 US HWY 26
8 August 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
5 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresLander Field OfficeKINNEAR
17 August 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLander Field OfficePILOT BUTTE
4 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreFremont CountyPILOT BUTTE
22 July 2013Smoking2.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morton in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2009Thunderstorm WindMorton$20,000Measured wind gusts of 57 to 61 mph lifted a 16x40 foot metal structure which was staked to the ground and tossed it 60 to 70 feet downwind.
June 2017FloodMorton-Snow melt from the mountains produced flooding in the low lying areas near Kinnear. The flooding remained over low lying areas and agricultural land along the Wind River and produced little or no damage.
June 2017FloodMorton-Flood water from the Wind River and flowed across US 26 just to the west of Morton. The water covered the road to a depth of over a foot at times. This resulted in two different closures of the road, the longest of which lasted almost four days, stretching from afternoon of June 7th until around noon on June 11th.
June 2025HailMorton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fremont 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
Pavillion5.4 miles8
Kinnear6.1 miles8
Johnstown6.9 miles9
Ethete12.1 miles8
Fort Washakie14.6 miles8
Wind River15.9 miles10
Midvale17.5 miles9
Boulder Flats19.9 miles10

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 MortonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6914803The 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 1597419. 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.