Reliance, Wyoming
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Rock Springs North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82943. The Survey maps it on the Reliance quadrangle. 622 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,529 feet above sea level.
On record in Reliance
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 2 records
Reliance School and Gymnasiumlisted 1988
Reliance Tipplelisted 1991
Population over time
2 figuresReliance fell from 714 to 622 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 | 714 | |
| 2020 | 622 | -92 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1908 USGS Rock Springs quadrangle1:62500
- 1910 USGS Rock Springs quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Rock Springs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Rock Springs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Rock Springs quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Reliance quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Rock Springs quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
72 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Reliance between 1992 and 2020, burning about 58 acres in total. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Fireworks | 26 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 September 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Rock Springs Field Office | STASNOSE |
| 8 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Rock Springs Field Office | ANTELOPE |
| 7 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Sweetwater County | UNKNOWN |
| 6 August 2017 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Sweetwater County | MOHAWK DEPRESSION |
| 5 August 2018 | Smoking | under an acre | Sweetwater County | GANNETT FIRE |
| 4 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sweetwater County | FAIR GROUND FIRE |
| 4 August 2017 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Sweetwater County | FAIR FIRE |
| 31 August 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Rock Springs Field Office | WHITE MOUNTAIN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Reliance: 6 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hopefull | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| State Highway Department ledge rock quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| State Highway Department ledge rock quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| State Highway Department ledge rock quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| State Highway Dept | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| State Highway Dept | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| State Highway Dept | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| State Highway Dept | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Reliance in 2 storm reports in 2014: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2014 | Lightning | Reliance | 1 hurt | A 31-year-old man was injured when lightning struck him on the practice putting green at White Mountain Golf Course on the north side of Rock Springs. A witness to the incident was able to revive the man with CPR and a defibrillator. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reliance | $15,000 | A large roof section was torn from a home in the small community of Reliance north of Rock Springs. Strong wind also toppled a utility pole and did damage to a nearby fence. Weak convection was responsible for the wind gust, as there was no thunderstorm in the area. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stansbury | 2.4 miles | 11 | |
| North Rock Springs | 4.0 miles | 9 | |
| Dines (historical) | 4.1 miles | 11 | |
| Winton (historical) | 5.6 miles | 11 | |
| Rock Springs | 5.6 miles | 13 | |
| Blairtown | 6.8 miles | 13 | |
| Clearview Acres | 7.4 miles | 8 | |
| Quealy | 9.1 miles | 13 |
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 Reliance | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q726519 | 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 1593379. 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.
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.






