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South Torrington, Wyoming

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Torrington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82240. It lies near Pioneer Park. The Survey maps it on the Torrington quadrangle.

South Torrington within Goshen County

On record in South Torrington

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 17 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

41 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of South Torrington between 1996 and 2020, burning about 1,310 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/undetermined16
Fireworks6
Debris and open burning6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
10 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
5 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGoshen CountyHIGHWAY 26
19 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresGoshen CountyHWY92 & HWY 85
4 July 2017Fireworks1.0 acresGoshen County202 ROCK RIDGE
4 July 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
31 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGoshen CountySHOOTING RANGE
3 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreGoshen County5332 HWY 26
3 July 2018Fireworks1.0 acresGoshen County1310 TIPPECANOE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Goshen County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of South Torrington: 2 producers. All of them 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
C.C.I. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Wheatland PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Goshen County

Storms near this place

5 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Torrington in 5 storm reports between 2022 and 2023: 5 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
July 2023HailSouth Torrington-Golf ball size hail reported with car windows broken outside of a restaurant south of Torrington.
July 2023HailSouth Torrington-Received report from mPING.
June 2022HailSouth Torrington-Received report from mPing.
July 2023HailSouth Torrington-no account filed
July 2023HailSouth Torrington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Goshen 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
Torrington0.9 miles17
Cottier4.8 miles18
Huntley8.3 miles13
Heldt9.2 miles18
Silver Tip10.4 miles13
Lingle10.6 miles18
Yoder11.0 miles13
Veteran12.2 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q122565394The 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 1594747. 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.