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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.

Reliance within Sweetwater County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Reliance 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.

YearPeople Change
2010714
2020622-92 (-13%)

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

72 since 1992

Regional 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
Fireworks26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Debris and open burning1
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
16 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeSTASNOSE
8 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeANTELOPE
7 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSweetwater CountyUNKNOWN
6 August 2017Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSweetwater CountyMOHAWK DEPRESSION
5 August 2018Smokingunder an acreSweetwater CountyGANNETT FIRE
4 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSweetwater CountyFAIR GROUND FIRE
4 August 2017Fireworks1.0 acresSweetwater CountyFAIR FIRE
31 August 2010Naturalunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeWHITE MOUNTAIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sweetwater 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
HopefullUraniumOccurrence
UnknownUraniumOccurrence
State Highway Department ledge rock quarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
State Highway Department ledge rock quarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
State Highway Department ledge rock quarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
State Highway DeptSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
State Highway DeptSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
State Highway DeptSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
State Highway DeptSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sweetwater County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2014LightningReliance1 hurtA 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 2014Thunderstorm WindReliance$15,000A 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.

Every storm recorded in Sweetwater 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
Stansbury2.4 miles11
North Rock Springs4.0 miles9
Dines (historical)4.1 miles11
Winton (historical)5.6 miles11
Rock Springs5.6 miles13
Blairtown6.8 miles13
Clearview Acres7.4 miles8
Quealy9.1 miles13

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 RelianceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q726519The 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.