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Natrona, Wyoming

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Hells Half Acre census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82646. The Survey maps it on the Natrona quadrangle. It stands 5,604 feet above sea level.

Natrona within Natrona County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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

26 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Natrona between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,441 acres in total. 18 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
Natural18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking1
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
9 August 2013Naturalunder an acreCasper Field OfficeDUFF
6 August 1995Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresCasper Field OfficeBN#4
27 August 1996Natural242 acresCasper Field OfficeBAERTHEL C
25 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
14 August 2017Natural8.7 acresCasper Field OfficeGOLDEN EYE
9 July 2018Naturalunder an acreCasper Field OfficeSODIUM
4 July 1997Natural1.0 acresCasper Field OfficePINE MTN.
28 July 1998Smokingunder an acreCasper Field OfficeGOLDEN EYE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Natrona County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Natrona: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Sodium Sulfate. 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
Locality 13UraniumOccurrence
Pratt Sodium MineSodium SulfatePast Producer1992

Every working recorded in Natrona County

Storms near this place

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Natrona in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
August 2025Thunderstorm WindNatrona-Wind gusts as high as 65 mph occurred along US 20 26 in Natrona.
September 2024Funnel CloudNatrona-The public posted a pair of cold air funnels on Facebook.
July 2023HailNatrona-Hail the size of nickels to golf balls fell from north of Natrona to the south of Midwest, including along Interstate 25.
May 2023HailNatrona-The Wyoming Highway Patrol reported nickel size hail along US 20 26 near Natrona.
June 2011HailNatrona-A strong thunderstorm moved northeast across U.S. Highway 20/26 producing quarter sized hail at Natrona.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindNatrona-no account filed
June 2001Tornado (F0)Natrona-no account filed
May 1999HailNatrona-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Natrona 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
Petrie3.7 miles6
Beck Place9.1 miles6
Powder River9.4 miles6
Bucknum9.7 miles6
Bishop19.7 miles11
Blue Hill (historical)20.3 miles7
Waltman20.6 miles7
Air Base Acres22.0 miles11

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 NatronaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6980239The 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 1597426. 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.