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South Greeley, Wyoming

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Cheyenne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82007. The Survey maps it on the Cheyenne South quadrangle. 4,733 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,047 feet above sea level.

South Greeley within Laramie County

Population over time

2 figures

South Greeley grew from 4,217 to 4,733 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
20104,217
20204,733+516 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

253 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 253 fires within 5 miles of South Greeley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,986 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 were 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/undetermined86
Debris and open burning53
Fireworks33
Railroad operations and maintenance23
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Equipment and vehicle use12
Recreation and ceremony10
Smoking7
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism2

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
8 September 2004Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
30 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
3 September 2006Smokingunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
29 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
26 September 2020Natural100 acresWyoming State ForestryMULLEN FIRE
26 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWyoming State Forestry1125
26 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
24 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Laramie County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of South Greeley: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. 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
Mccard Pit No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Read Ready-Mix Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Teton Gravel & WashingSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Teton Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Yramius Paul Tracy RanchSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Laramie County

Storms near this place

26 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Greeley in 26 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 20 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2025HailSouth Greeley-Mping report of hen egg sized hail.
July 2025HailSouth Greeley-Report of quarter size hailstones.
June 2025HailSouth Greeley-Report of quarter size hail near Highway 85, South Greeley Highway.
June 2024HailSouth Greeley-A trained weather spotter reported penny sized hail in south Cheyenne.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindSouth Greeley-Received report of strong winds with debris being blown around.
May 2023HailSouth Greeley-Received report from mPING.
July 2023HailSouth Greeley-Report received on Twitter with photo of quarter to half dollar sized hail.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindSouth Greeley-A highway sensor from WYDOT recorded a wind gust to 59 MPH approximately 7 miles southeast of South Greeley, south of Cheyenne.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindSouth Greeley-Pea sized hail and estimated wind gusts to 60 MPH were reported 2 miles SSW of Cheyenne.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindSouth Greeley-Estimated wind gusts of 55 to 60 mph were observed at South Greeley.
July 2018Flash FloodSouth Greeley-Water was reported covering the south bound lanes of United States Highway 85 on the south side of Cheyenne.
July 2018Flash FloodSouth Greeley-Water was covering the intersection of Interstate 25 and College Drive in Cheyenne.
July 2016HailSouth Greeley-Golf ball size hail was reported three miles southeast of South Greeley.
July 2016HailSouth Greeley-Ping pong ball size hail was reported at Terry Ranch Road south of Cheyenne.
July 2016HailSouth Greeley-Ping pong ball size hail was reported about two miles southeast of South Greeley.
June 2015HailSouth Greeley-Quarter size hail was observed at South Greeley.
May 2019HailSouth Greeley-no account filed
May 2019HailSouth Greeley-no account filed
June 2019HailSouth Greeley-no account filed
June 2019HailSouth Greeley-no account filed
June 2019HailSouth Greeley-no account filed
August 2018HailSouth Greeley-no account filed
August 2018HailSouth Greeley-no account filed
August 2018HailSouth Greeley-no account filed
August 2018HailSouth Greeley-no account filed
August 2018HailSouth Greeley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Laramie 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
Orchard Valley0.7 miles18
Cheyenne3.1 miles17
Speer5.6 miles16
Altvan5.9 miles12
Athol5.9 miles18
Gleason7.1 miles18
Ranchettes8.4 miles17
Durham13.4 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 South GreeleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1942452The 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 1867671. 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.