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Speer, Wyoming

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Cheyenne West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82007. The Survey maps it on the Borie quadrangle.

Speer within Laramie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Speer between 1992 and 2020, burning about 895 acres in total. 1 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
Fireworks13
Debris and open burning10
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1

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
29 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
26 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWyoming State Forestry1125
2 September 2020Fireworksunder an acreLaramie CountyREKINDLE 1
16 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWyoming State Forestry1076
14 September 2020Fireworks1.0 acresLaramie County2020-1396
1 September 2020Fireworks125 acresLaramie County2020-1316
9 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLaramie County2020-1121 SOUTH FORK FIRE
7 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWyoming State Forestry901

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Laramie County

Storms near this place

12 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Speer in 12 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2025HailSpeer-Report from mPING of quarter size hail.
May 2023Tornado (EFU)Speer-Brief landspout tornado occurred southwest of Cheyenne and just southwest|of the Dyno Nobel Plant per pictures and video evidence. Timing based on|radar and reports received. No damage occurred or was reported with the|landspout tornado remaining in open space just west and south of known|infrastructure. No injuries, no fatalities, and no damage.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindSpeer-WYDOT mesonet station reported wind gust from thunderstorm outflow.
August 2023HailSpeer-Nickel size hail along Terry Ranch Road.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindSpeer-WYDOT mesonet station KWYH - Wyo Hill along I-25 reported wind gust.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindSpeer-Union Pacific Railroad sensor UP229 located about eight miles north of Natural Fort measured the reported thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2019Funnel CloudSpeer-Numerous reports were relayed regarding a cold air funnel cloud near the Colorado and Wyoming state line south of Terry Ranch Road. Funnel was visible from residents in the city of Cheyenne prompting numerous media inquiries as school bus drivers were still dropping off kids while the funnel was present.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindSpeer-WYDOT sensor located at WYO Hill along Interstate 25 south of Cheyenne measured the wind from nearby thunderstorm.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindSpeer-The WYDOT sensor at Wyoming Hill measured a peak wind gust of 58 mph.
May 2021HailSpeer-no account filed
May 2021HailSpeer-no account filed
July 2018HailSpeer-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
Gleason3.4 miles18
Athol4.6 miles18
Orchard Valley5.0 miles18
South Greeley5.6 miles18
Cheyenne7.1 miles17
Otto9.8 miles14
Altvan11.4 miles12
Ranchettes12.6 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1608600. 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.