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North Rock Springs, Wyoming

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Rock Springs North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82901. The Survey maps it on the Pilot Butte quadrangle. 2,439 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,486 feet above sea level.

North Rock Springs within Sweetwater County

Population over time

2 figures

North Rock Springs grew from 2,207 to 2,439 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
20102,207
20202,439+232 (+11%)

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

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of North Rock Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,667 acres in total. 8 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/undetermined35
Fireworks33
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism1

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
3 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSweetwater CountySPRINGS
25 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSweetwater CountyCOLLEGE FIRE
21 September 2017Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSweetwater CountyMADISON DRIVE FIRE
21 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeWHITE MOUN
17 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSweetwater CountyI-80 MM107
16 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeSTASNOSE
8 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeANTELOPE
8 August 2019Smokingunder an acreSweetwater CountyBLAIR FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sweetwater County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of North Rock Springs: 3 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Potassium, Potash. 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
Pilot ButtePotassium, PotashProspectLeucite
State Highway DeptSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
State Highway DeptSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
State Highway DeptSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

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
Reliance4.0 miles11
Clearview Acres4.4 miles8
Rock Springs5.1 miles13
Blairtown5.2 miles13
Stansbury5.8 miles11
Purple Sage7.1 miles8
Dines (historical)7.5 miles11
Quealy7.6 miles13

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 North Rock SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1956375The 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 1853208. 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.