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Orin, Wyoming

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Douglas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82633. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Orin quadrangle. 52 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,705 feet above sea level.

Orin within Converse County

Population over time

2 figures

Orin grew from 46 to 52 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
201046
202052+6 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

9 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Orin between 2003 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined3
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Debris and open burning1

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
30 August 2017Natural44 acresCasper Field OfficeCOUNTY LINE
29 August 2017Natural1.0 acresConverse CountyORIN WAY
20 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresConverse CountyFRONTAGE
11 July 2003Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
1 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreConverse CountyRAILROAD TIE
8 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresConverse CountyMM 122
8 March 2020Debris and open burning20 acresConverse County18-20
2 October 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresConverse CountyORIN WAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Converse County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Orin: 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, 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
Barkdoll Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Orin Junction PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cactus 4 ClaimUraniumPast Producer
Shawnee Creek AreaUraniumPast Producer
UnknownUraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Converse County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orin in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 lightning. 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
July 1997LightningOrin-Fire caused by lightning burned 500 acres of grass on a ranch near Orin.

Every storm recorded in Converse 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
Orin Junction0.5 miles8
Ammon3.8 miles8
Irvine6.0 miles9
Deadmans Corner6.7 miles9
Shawnee11.7 miles9
Douglas12.5 miles10
Lost Springs16.1 miles7
Esterbrook18.9 miles12

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 OrinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4452078The 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 1592478. 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.