Saddlestring, Wyoming
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Buffalo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82834. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stone Mountain quadrangle. It stands 5,440 feet above sea level.
On record in Saddlestring
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- HF Bar Ranch Historic Districtlisted 1984 · 0.4 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1900 USGS Fort McKinney quadrangle1:125000
- 1903 USGS Fort McKinney quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Stone Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Stone Mountain quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
13 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Saddlestring between 1992 and 2017, burning about 8,287 acres in total. 6 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 | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 August 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Bighorn National Forest | ROCK CREEK |
| 28 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Buffalo Field Office | SOUTH FORK |
| 28 August 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Johnson County | HF BAR |
| 2 August 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Buffalo Field Office | BEAR CANYON |
| 2 August 2017 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Johnson County | BEAR CANYON FIRE |
| 14 August 2012 | Natural | 8,189 acres | Bighorn National Forest | GILEAD |
| 10 August 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Bighorn National Forest | STONE MOUNTAIN |
| 10 August 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Saddlestring: 1 unknown, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Bentonite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Rock Creek | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Unknown | ||
| Unknown | Bentonite | Prospect |
Storms near this place
9 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saddlestring in 9 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saddlestring | - | An outflow boundary moving into the area from the thunderstorms to the south brought high winds to the Buffalo, Wyoming airport. The maximum reported wind was 64 mph. |
| July 2018 | Hail | Saddlestring | - | A supercell thunderstorm brought hail of quarter to golf ball size across northern Johnson County, including across the city of Buffalo. There were numerous reports of crop damage as well as broken windows and damaged siding along the path. |
| May 2018 | Flood | Saddlestring | - | Emergency management reported flooding near Fort Phil Kearney that covered old Highway 87 and temporarily closed Highway 193. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Saddlestring | - | A thunderstorm rapidly intensified along and downstream of the Bighorn Mountain foothills northwest of Buffalo. The storm tracked southeast through Saddlestring where the public reported nickel-sized hail at a rural ranch along Rock Creek. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Saddlestring | - | People at a Saddlestring ranch reported one inch diameter hail. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Saddlestring | - | Golf ball sized hail was reported at the Fort Phil Kearny Historic Site. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Saddlestring | - | Hail the size of quarters fell in Saddlestring. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saddlestring | - | Cottonwood trees as tall as 60 feet were reported down in Saddlestring. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Saddlestring | - | A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail. |
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.
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 Saddlestring | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7397771 | 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 1604592. 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.







