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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.

Ranchettes within Laramie County

Population over time

2 figures

Ranchettes 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.

YearPeople Change
20105,798
20206,199+401 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

123 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined34
Debris and open burning26
Fireworks10
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony10
Smoking9
Natural7
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism1

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
5 September 2004Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
4 September 2020Smoking1.0 acresLaramie County3560 HORSE CREEK
23 September 2018Fireworksunder an acreLaramie CountyTERRY RANCH
22 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresLaramie CountyTRANSFORMER FIRE
18 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresLaramie CountyYARINA WAY
13 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
9 August 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresLaramie CountySNOW VALLEY
3 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named

Every fire recorded in Laramie 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
Cheyenne5.7 miles17
Altvan8.1 miles12
South Greeley8.4 miles18
Orchard Valley8.6 miles18
Durham10.3 miles13
Speer12.6 miles16
Athol14.3 miles18
Gleason15.2 miles18

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 RanchettesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1942363The 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.