BlockRockeagle, Wyoming
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Goshen Hole census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82244. The Survey maps it on the Doty Hill quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 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.
- 1896 USGS Hartville quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Hartville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Rockeagle quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Torrington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Torrington quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Torrington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Doty Hill quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
2 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Rockeagle between 2011 and 2017, burning about 157 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 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 July 2011 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 147 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | DUMP |
| 23 March 2017 | Natural | 10 acres | Goshen County | ROAD 54 |
Storms near this place
14 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rockeagle in 14 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 9 hail, 4 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2025 | Hail | Rockeagle | - | Public reports 1.75in hail. |
| September 2024 | Hail | Rockeagle | - | Emergency manager west of Veteran, Wyoming reported hail slightly larger than quarters. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Rockeagle | - | Golf ball sized hail was reported 8 miles S of Fort Laramie. |
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | Rockeagle | - | Rushing water was flowing over the road at the intersection of Road 70 and Road 19. |
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | Rockeagle | - | Road 70 was under water from the intersection of Road 23 and out about half mile down the roadway. |
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | Rockeagle | - | Water was running over area county roads west of Veteran with several feet deep along Road 23 from Road 68 to Road 70. Marble size hail drifts up to two feet tall while the nearby Cherry Creek grew to about 100 feet wide and three to four feet deep carrying large logs downstream. |
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | Rockeagle | - | Cherry Creek Dam rose over four feet in thirty minutes with the nearby Deer Creek running high. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Rockeagle | - | Accumulating quarter sized hail covered portions of County Road 70 from road 17 to 19. |
| June 2017 | Tornado (EFU) | Rockeagle | - | Emergency management, an off-duty NWS employee, and storm chasers observed a series of tornado touchdowns in rural western Goshen County. The tornado path was discontinuous with no damage from which the NWS could assign an EF-scale rating. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Rockeagle | - | Quarter size hail was observed 10 miles south of Fort Laramie. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Rockeagle | - | Quarter size hail was observed 10 miles south of Fort Laramie. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Rockeagle | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Rockeagle | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Rockeagle | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mers Hill | 8.6 miles | 9 | |
| Veteran | 11.0 miles | 12 | |
| Heldt | 12.8 miles | 18 | |
| Fort Laramie | 14.9 miles | 15 | |
| Lingle | 15.5 miles | 18 | |
| Yoder | 16.3 miles | 13 | |
| Cottier | 16.9 miles | 18 | |
| Trelona (historical) | 17.7 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.
| Wikidata item Q122589654 | 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 1608698. 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.