Slater, Wyoming
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Chugwater census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82201. The Survey maps it on the Chugwater quadrangle. 78 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,997 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSlater fell from 80 to 78 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 | 80 | |
| 2020 | 78 | -2 (-2%) |
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.
- 1953 USGS Chugwater quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Cheyenne quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Cheyenne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Chugwater quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
4 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Slater between 2013 and 2018, burning about 160 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Natural | 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 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Wyoming State Forestry | SHEP 3 |
| 8 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 30 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 21 July 2018 | Natural | 135 acres | Platte County | BULLSEYE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
18 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Slater in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 14 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Flash Flood | Slater | $10,000 | Platte County Sheriffs Office reports flooding on Interstate 25 near mile marker 62. County roads also have water over them. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Slater | - | The public reported hail up to the size of golf balls with hail accumulating in fields in the Slater area. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Slater | - | A trained weather spotter reported half dollar sized hail 15 miles SE of Wheatland. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Slater | - | The public reported quarter to golf ball sized hail 3 miles S of Slater. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Slater | - | A trained weather spotter reported golf ball sized hail along I-25 at Slater Road. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Slater | - | Hen Egg sized hail was reported 6 miles N of Chugwater via mPING. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Slater | - | Ping-pong ball sized hail was reported 8 miles N of Chugwater via mPING. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Slater | - | A storm chaser observed 2.25 inch diameter hail 8 miles NE of Chugwater. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Slater | - | Additional photos were sent in showing the interstate covered with hail that was reported being around four inches deep, requiring use of plows to clear the roadways. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Slater | - | Hail accumulated to around 5 inches on the ground. |
| August 2019 | Flash Flood | Slater | - | Flash flooding was reported with water overflowing out of the banks of Richaeu Creek and onto area roadways. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Slater | - | Ping pong ball size hail was observed east of Slater. |
| August 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Slater | - | Brief tornado sited by public. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slater | - | Reported by USAF personnel. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Slater | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Slater | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Slater | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Slater | - | 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.
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 Slater | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1942053 | 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 1609156. 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.



