Sweetwater Station, Wyoming

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Jeffrey City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82520. It stands on Crooked Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sweetwater Station quadrangle.

Sweetwater Station within Fremont County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1953 USGS Sweetwater Station quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Lander quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Lander quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Lander quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Lander quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Sweetwater Station between 2002 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. None 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	3

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
4 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lander Field Office	ASSIST 18
24 June 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
9 October 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wind River / Bighorn Basin District	ICE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont 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 Sweetwater Station: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Countryman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	King	Uranium	Unknown

Every working recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sweetwater Station in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 2 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2016	Flood	Sweetwater Station	$1,200,000	Widespread heavy rain of 2.50 to 4.50 fell in a broad swath across Fremont County during a 48-hour period from Friday evening, May 6, through Sunday evening, May 8. There was a peak rainfall amount of 6.88 at a rain gauge about 6 miles west of Fort Washakie on the Little Wind River. The heavy rain fell over the lower elevations of the Wind River Basin and in the lower foothills of the Wind River Range.\|\|The heaviest rainfall occurred between 1900MST Friday, May 6, and 1700MST Saturday, May 7. The rain gauge at Lander Hunt Field reported 3.82 in this 22-hour period, with 1.12 falling between 0800MST and 1100MST Saturday. The heavy rainfall contributed to significant rises along the Little Wind River and its tributaries, particularly the Little Popo Agie River through Lyons Valley. The rapid river rises produced substantial flooding from Lyons Valley, to Hudson, to Arapahoe.\|\|Overland flow was a significant contributor to the rapidly rising rivers. Recent rains had left soils relatively wet, so as rainfall piled up on Saturday morning water began to flow across fields, overwhelm ditches, and fill ravines. These waters made their way to the larger rivers and quickly filled them. By early Saturday afternoon, there were reports of water covering low-lying areas of roads north and northwest of Lander. The rain was so heavy that water seeped through the walls at the hospital in Lander prompting the evacuation of patients. Some basement flooding was reported in residential areas of Lander. By mid-afternoon Saturday, reports were received of flood waters on the Little Popo Agie River surrounding homes in Lyons Valley. Several rural roads were either covered with water or damaged by the flood waters in the valley. The flood waters on this tributary combined with the already high water on the Popo Agie River to cause water levels to surge in Hudson late Saturday evening and early Sunday morning. The subsequent flooding damaged or destroyed several mobile homes along the river on the west side of Hudson. Sunday afternoon saw the retreat of water levels on these rivers with a subsequent decrease in flood-related problems.\|\|Multiple tributaries and overland flow to small creeks, streams, and ditches quickly filled the Little Wind River near Arapahoe downstream to around Riverton. The river topped flood stage of 8 feet at 0605MST Sunday, May 8, and climbed about 1 foot every three to four hours during the morning and early afternoon. The river crested at 10.19 feet between 1545MST and 1600MST Sunday as residents along the river scrambled to fill sandbags and move property to a safer location. Flood waters on the Little Wind River retreated slowly on Monday, May 9, before falling below flood stage at 0120MST on Tuesday, May 10. The river fell below action stage by the end of Tuesday.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Sweetwater Station	-	Around a half an hour period of severe thunderstorm winds occurred at Beaver Rim, with a maximum gust of 69 mph. A 68 mph wind gust was reported at the Camp Creek RAWS site.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Sweetwater Station	-	Severe thunderstorm winds occurred in eastern Fremont County. The maximum wind gust was 65 mph at Shoshoni, Wyoming.
May 2011	Flood	Sweetwater Station	-	Several ranchers along the Sweetwater River in southern Fremont County reported minor flooding as a result of rapid snowmelt. Much of the flooding occurred around Sweetwater Station. Occasional afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms added to the rise of the river. Cooler temperatures and a loss of low elevation snow slowed the rising water before the end of May.

Every storm recorded in Fremont 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sweetwater Crossing	0.2 miles	9
Myersville (historical)	4.4 miles	8
Sand Draw	15.1 miles	11
Jeffrey City	19.2 miles	9
Kotey Place	25.6 miles	11
Miners Delight	26.3 miles	12
Atlantic City	29.2 miles	10
Last Crossing Ford Number 9	30.7 miles	10

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 Q122597051

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 1595249. 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.