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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.

Rock River within Albany County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Rock 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.

YearPeople Change
2010245
2020211-34 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

2 since 2006

Regional 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
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
12 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.2 acresAlbany CountyROCK RIVER 1
7 June 2006Naturalunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeTOWER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Albany County

Storms near this place

13 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2021HailRock River-Quarter to half dollar sized hail reported on Twitter in Rock River with photo provided.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindRock River-Winds measured at the Union Pacific Railroad Mesonet station RKRIVR.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindRock River-Estimated wind gusts of 60 mph were reported at Rock River.
June 2014HailRock River-Quarter to half dollar size hail was observed in Rock River.
June 2010HailRock River-Estimated time of report.
August 2007Flash FloodRock River-Water up to 8 inches deep flowing across highway.
June 1995Tornado (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 2019HailRock River-no account filed
July 2019HailRock River-no account filed
July 2019HailRock River-no account filed
June 2018HailRock River-no account filed
April 2005HailRock River-no account filed
August 2002HailRock River-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Albany 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
Wilcox3.6 miles8
Harper5.1 miles8
Rock Creek (historical)9.0 miles8
Lookout10.5 miles8
Cooper Lake13.2 miles8
Bosler18.7 miles8
Bosler Junction20.3 miles8
Wyoming25.5 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 Rock RiverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1028643The 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.