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Parkman, Wyoming

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Sheridan West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82838. It stands on Dry Twin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dayton North quadrangle. 180 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,304 feet above sea level.

Parkman within Sheridan County

Population over time

2 figures

Parkman grew from 151 to 180 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
2010151
2020180+29 (+19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Parkman between 1992 and 2020, burning about 248 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1
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 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
9 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
25 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
2 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresCrow AgencyGOPER
19 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
18 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
10 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
1 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresCrow AgencyI90 INCIDENT 332

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sheridan 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 Parkman: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. 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
Anderson Claims and Adjacent ClaimsUraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Sheridan County

Storms near this place

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parkman in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 2011FloodParkman$520,000Heavy rains of 3 to 5 inches in the Big Horn Mountains and Foothills caused area streams and creeks to rise and result in localized flooding. Small streams and creeks around Dayton were reported to be flooded. In addition, flooding was reported along the Tongue River and Little Goose Creek and on creeks in the Ranchester area resulting in the closing of some county roads. During the height of the heavy rainfall, Pass Creek Road, far northern Sheridan County near the Montana border, flooded and was eventually washed out. Several culverts were also reported as washed out.
June 2025HailParkman-Estimated 60 mph wind gust (no confirmation).
June 2019HailParkman-Quarter size hail was reported 12 miles northwest of Dayton.
June 2019HailParkman-A large amount of hail resulted in leaf damage to bushes.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindParkman-A severe thunderstorm moved over the northwest portion of the Big Horn Mountains during the late afternoon on the 27th. A National Weather Service storm survey concluded that a microburst with winds estimated at 90-100 mph hit the area. Damage from this microburst occurred near Highway 14A near mile marker 81. The approximate damage area was 1/4 mile wide and 2-3 miles in length. Two camper trailers were completely destroyed (tossed and turned) and two others were severely damaged. Numerous large trees, up to one foot in diameter, were snapped. In addition, ping pong to golf ball size hail occurred with this thunderstorm.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindParkman-no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindParkman-no account filed
July 2016HailParkman-no account filed
July 2016HailParkman-no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindParkman-no account filed
May 2014Thunderstorm WindParkman-no account filed
June 1996HailParkman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheridan 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
Dayton6.8 miles15
Ranchester9.6 miles15
Wolf13.7 miles15
Monarch16.2 miles15
Burgess Junction16.3 miles17
Kleenburn17.4 miles15
Beckton17.9 miles17
Acme18.7 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 ParkmanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1956198The 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 1805262. 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.