Pavillion, Wyoming
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1962. It stands in the Wind River Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82523. The Survey maps it on the Pavillion quadrangle. 230 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,463 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPavillion fell from 231 to 230 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 231 | |
| 2020 | 230 | -1 (-0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1950 USGS Pavillion quadrangle1:24000
- 1955 USGS Thermopolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Pavillion quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Thermopolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Thermopolis quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
31 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Pavillion between 2002 and 2020, burning about 166 acres in total. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Lander Field Office | DITCH |
| 29 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fremont County | 2036 MISSOURI VALLEY ROAD |
| 8 August 2006 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 31 August 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Lander Field Office | TRUST |
| 3 July 2020 | Fireworks | under an acre | Fremont County | 350 E PAVILLION |
| 29 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Fremont County | NONE |
| 22 July 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 24 June 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pavillion in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pavillion | $1,000 | Strong wind snapped healthy tree branches up to two inches in diameter in the town of Pavillion. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pavillion | - | A 59 mph wind gust was reported near Pavillion. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Pavillion | - | A retired National Weather Service meteorologist reported ping pong ball size hail along Arapahoe Roach Road to the north of Pavillion. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Pavillion | - | Large amounts of hail up to nickel size fell in northern Fremont County, especially along Missouri Valley Road. The hail covered the ground to the depth of a few inches in places, including in Midvale. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Pavillion | - | Quarter sized hail fell at Pavillion for 15 minutes. |
| May 1997 | Flash Flood | Pavillion | - | Flash flooding near and on Muddy Creek and Dry Cottonwood Creek northeast of Pavillion. Estimated 2 to 3 inches of rain in less than 2 hours. Damage to gravel road in several areas between Muddy and Dry Cottonwood Creeks. |
| July 2002 | Hail | Pavillion | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morton | 5.4 miles | 9 | |
| Kinnear | 6.4 miles | 8 | |
| Johnstown | 8.7 miles | 9 | |
| Midvale | 13.1 miles | 9 | |
| Ethete | 15.8 miles | 8 | |
| Fort Washakie | 19.3 miles | 8 | |
| Wind River | 20.6 miles | 10 | |
| Arapahoe | 22.2 miles | 10 |
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 Pavillion | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1028636 | The 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 1592630. 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.




