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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.

Powder River within Natrona County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Powder 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.

YearPeople Change
201044
202030-14 (-32%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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

13 since 1995

Regional 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/undetermined8
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
25 August 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreCasper Field OfficeSHIRTTAIL
13 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,112 acresNatrona CountyMIDDLE FORK
29 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreCasper Field OfficeNOTCHES
28 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
23 July 2000Natural640 acresCasper Field OfficePOWDER RVR
23 July 1995Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresCasper Field OfficeBN#1
2 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined408 acresNatrona CountyMM 36
11 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCasper Field OfficeHWY 20 26

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Natrona County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2013HailPowder River$10,000Vehicles were forced to pull over near Powder River as baseball sized hail fell from a second severe thunderstorm.
June 2013HailPowder River$2,000Ping pong ball sized hail broke windows at a residence in Powder River.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindPowder River-The public estimated 60 mph gusts one mile north of the Powder River post office.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindPowder River-The public estimated 70 mph wind gusts five miles east of Powder River.
July 2007HailPowder River-Golf ball sized hail fell in Powder River for 10 to 15 minutes.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindPowder River-no account filed
June 2001HailPowder River-no account filed
June 1998Tornado (F0)Powder River-no account filed
June 1998Funnel CloudPowder River-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Natrona 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
Natrona9.4 miles6
Waltman11.3 miles7
Petrie13.1 miles6
Beck Place16.3 miles6
Arminto17.5 miles8
Bucknum19.2 miles6
Hiland20.0 miles7
Raderville22.5 miles9

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 RiverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1956447The 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.