Powder River, 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 82648. It lies near Wyatt Draw. The Survey maps it on the Powder River quadrangle. 30 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,719 feet above sea level.
On record in Powder River
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Depotlisted 1988
Population over time
2 figuresPowder River fell from 44 to 30 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 | 44 | |
| 2020 | 30 | -14 (-32%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 6 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.
- 1955 USGS Arminto quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Arminto quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Arminto quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Powder River quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Midwest quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
13 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Powder River between 1995 and 2020, burning about 3,173 acres in total. 2 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 | 8 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 August 1996 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Casper Field Office | SHIRTTAIL |
| 13 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,112 acres | Natrona County | MIDDLE FORK |
| 29 July 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Casper Field Office | NOTCHES |
| 28 July 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 23 July 2000 | Natural | 640 acres | Casper Field Office | POWDER RVR |
| 23 July 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 3.0 acres | Casper Field Office | BN#1 |
| 2 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 408 acres | Natrona County | MM 36 |
| 11 July 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Casper Field Office | HWY 20 26 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Powder River in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2013: 4 hail, 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2013 | Hail | Powder River | $10,000 | Vehicles were forced to pull over near Powder River as baseball sized hail fell from a second severe thunderstorm. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Powder River | $2,000 | Ping pong ball sized hail broke windows at a residence in Powder River. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powder River | - | The public estimated 60 mph gusts one mile north of the Powder River post office. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powder River | - | The public estimated 70 mph wind gusts five miles east of Powder River. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Powder River | - | Golf ball sized hail fell in Powder River for 10 to 15 minutes. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powder River | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Powder River | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Powder River | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Powder River | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Natrona | 9.4 miles | 6 | |
| Waltman | 11.3 miles | 7 | |
| Petrie | 13.1 miles | 6 | |
| Beck Place | 16.3 miles | 6 | |
| Arminto | 17.5 miles | 8 | |
| Bucknum | 19.2 miles | 6 | |
| Hiland | 20.0 miles | 7 | |
| Raderville | 22.5 miles | 9 |
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 Powder River | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1956447 | 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 1593001. 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.




