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Red Butte, Wyoming

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Hells Half Acre census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82604. It lies near Webb Draw. The Survey maps it on the Goose Egg quadrangle. 410 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,167 feet above sea level.

Red Butte within Natrona County

Population over time

2 figures

Red Butte fell from 449 to 410 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
2010449
2020410-39 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

139 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Red Butte between 1992 and 2020, burning about 724 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 3 were 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/undetermined73
Natural29
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Fireworks5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony1
Firearms and explosives use1

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
7 September 1998Naturalunder an acreCasper Field OfficeWEST END
4 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCasper Field OfficeCY FIRE
23 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
23 September 2005Naturalunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
18 September 2018Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresNatrona County108 7TH AVE FIRE
17 September 2019Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNatrona County71 CONSTRUCTION
16 September 2019Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresNatrona CountyWILDLAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Natrona County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Red Butte: 3 occurrences, 3 prospects, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Bentonite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Boels-Rimrock PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Midwest-Thoeming & WakemClayProducer
Blue Hill DepositBentoniteProspect
Goose Egg #1BentoniteOccurrence
Soap Creek #1BentoniteProducer
Southwest of CasperBentoniteOccurrence
UnknownBentoniteProspect
UnknownBentoniteProspect
UnknownBentoniteOccurrence

Every working 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
Red Buttes Village0.7 miles11
Paradise Valley2.1 miles11
Mountain View4.1 miles11
Goose Egg4.1 miles11
Vista West4.2 miles11
Mills4.3 miles11
Midwest Heights5.1 miles11
Air Base Acres5.3 miles11

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 Red ButteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1942082The 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 1853210. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.