Ranchettes, Wyoming
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Cheyenne East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82009. The Survey maps it on the Cheyenne North quadrangle. 6,199 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,201 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresRanchettes grew from 5,798 to 6,199 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 | 5,798 | |
| 2020 | 6,199 | +401 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1911 USGS Cheyenne quadrangle1:125000
- 1914 USGS Cheyenne quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1950 USGS Cheyenne quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Cheyenne quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Cheyenne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Cheyenne quadrangle1:62500
- 1961 USGS Cheyenne North quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Cheyenne quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Cheyenne North quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
123 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Ranchettes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 957 acres in total. 7 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/undetermined | 34 |
| Debris and open burning | 26 |
| Fireworks | 10 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Smoking | 9 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2004 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 4 September 2020 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Laramie County | 3560 HORSE CREEK |
| 23 September 2018 | Fireworks | under an acre | Laramie County | TERRY RANCH |
| 22 September 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Laramie County | TRANSFORMER FIRE |
| 18 September 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3.0 acres | Laramie County | YARINA WAY |
| 13 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 9 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Laramie County | SNOW VALLEY |
| 3 August 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheyenne | 5.7 miles | 17 | |
| Altvan | 8.1 miles | 12 | |
| South Greeley | 8.4 miles | 18 | |
| Orchard Valley | 8.6 miles | 18 | |
| Durham | 10.3 miles | 13 | |
| Speer | 12.6 miles | 16 | |
| Athol | 14.3 miles | 18 | |
| Gleason | 15.2 miles | 18 |
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 Ranchettes | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1942363 | 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 1867669. 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.








