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Sinclair, Wyoming

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Rawlins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82334. It lies near Grenville Dome. The Survey maps it on the Sinclair quadrangle. 374 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,588 feet above sea level.

Sinclair within Carbon County

On record in Sinclair

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

Sinclair fell from 433 to 374 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
2010433
2020374-59 (-14%)

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

15 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Sinclair between 1993 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
5 September 1993Natural3.0 acresRawlins Field OfficeSET BRAKE
20 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWyoming State ForestryMP 225, I-80
27 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeGOLF COURSE
17 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeEAST INTERCHANGE
27 July 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeRR 674
21 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWyoming State ForestryMP 217, I-80
11 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.4 acresRawlins Field OfficeMM 215
10 July 2012Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresWyoming State ForestryUPRR SINCLAIR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Sinclair: 2 unknowns, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Charlie Claim GroupUraniumProspect
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this place

4 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sinclair in 4 storm reports between 1993 and 2018: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2018HailSinclair-Hail broke several windows on a nearby car in addition to roofing shingles.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindSinclair-Estimated wind gusts of 55 to 60 mph were observed.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindSinclair-The WYDOT sensor three miles east of Sinclair measured a peak wind gust of 64 mph.
September 1993HailSinclair-An undersheriff reported a funnel cloud southwest of Rawlins. Near noon, hail up to 0.75 inch and 3 inches deep was noted on Interstate 80 through the town of Sinclair.

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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
Rawlins6.7 miles12
Fort Steele8.8 miles15
Walcott14.2 miles16
Old McKeal Place15.2 miles15
Edson17.3 miles16
Coyote Springs18.2 miles16
Old Haymaker Place20.7 miles15
Saratoga27.4 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 SinclairAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1029829The 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 1609153. 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.