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Smoot, Wyoming

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Afton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83126. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Smoot quadrangle. 376 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,611 feet above sea level.

Smoot within Lincoln County

Population over time

2 figures

Smoot grew from 195 to 376 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
2010195
2020376+181 (+93%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Smoot between 1992 and 2019, burning about 11 acres in total. 16 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
Natural16
Recreation and ceremony4
Debris and open burning2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 1994Naturalunder an acreBridger-Teton National Forestnot named
3 September 2012Naturalunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestWAGNER
3 September 1994Naturalunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestCOTTONWOOD CANYON
25 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestWICKIUP
18 September 2017Naturalunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestTRAIL FORK
17 September 2005Naturalunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestREDTOP
12 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestBOUNDARY
1 September 1994Naturalunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestSMOOT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln 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 Smoot: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Smoot in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2014: 2 hail. 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
September 2014HailSmoot-Hailstones up to ping pong ball size fell just north of Smoot.
June 2004HailSmoot-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Osmond4.4 miles9
Fairview5.9 miles9
Afton7.3 miles9
Grover11.9 miles9
Auburn12.7 miles12
Turnerville16.5 miles9
Bedford19.3 miles9
Thayne21.2 miles14

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 SmootAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1956385The 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 1603012. 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.