Rock River, Wyoming
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Rock River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82083. The Survey maps it on the Rock River quadrangle. 211 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,896 feet above sea level.
On record in Rock River
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 1 record
First National Bank of Rock Riverlisted 1988
Population over time
2 figuresRock River fell from 245 to 211 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 | 245 | |
| 2020 | 211 | -34 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1954 USGS Cheyenne quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Rock River quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Cheyenne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Rock River quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Rock River between 2006 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.2 acres | Albany County | ROCK RIVER 1 |
| 7 June 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | TOWER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rock River in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 9 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2021 | Hail | Rock River | - | Quarter to half dollar sized hail reported on Twitter in Rock River with photo provided. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rock River | - | Winds measured at the Union Pacific Railroad Mesonet station RKRIVR. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rock River | - | Estimated wind gusts of 60 mph were reported at Rock River. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Rock River | - | Quarter to half dollar size hail was observed in Rock River. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Rock River | - | Estimated time of report. |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Rock River | - | Water up to 8 inches deep flowing across highway. |
| June 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Rock River | - | A brief tornado touched down in Albany County 22 miles east of Rock River. Rock River is located 35 northwest of Laramie. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Rock River | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Rock River | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Rock River | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Rock River | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Rock River | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Rock River | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilcox | 3.6 miles | 8 | |
| Harper | 5.1 miles | 8 | |
| Rock Creek (historical) | 9.0 miles | 8 | |
| Lookout | 10.5 miles | 8 | |
| Cooper Lake | 13.2 miles | 8 | |
| Bosler | 18.7 miles | 8 | |
| Bosler Junction | 20.3 miles | 8 | |
| Wyoming | 25.5 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 Rock River | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1028643 | 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 1609147. 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.
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.



