Ten Sleep, Wyoming
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Ten Sleep census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82442. It stands on Tensleep Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ten Sleep quadrangle. 246 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,426 feet above sea level.
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On record in Ten Sleep
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 3 records
Emerson Parks Houselisted 2016
James T. Saban Lookoutlisted 2016
Ten Sleep Mercantilelisted 1986
Population over time
2 figuresTen Sleep fell from 260 to 246 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 260 | |
| 2020 | 246 | -14 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1899 USGS Cloud peak quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Cloud Peak quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1901 USGS Cloud peak quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Ten Sleep quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Worland quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
49 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Ten Sleep between 1992 and 2020, burning about 347 acres in total. 24 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Fireworks | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.6 acres | Worland Field Office | 436 ROAD |
| 25 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Washakie County | SHRIVER |
| 24 September 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Worland Field Office | DRY GULCH |
| 8 August 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Worland Field Office | YUCA |
| 7 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Washakie County | ROAD 47 |
| 6 August 2020 | Natural | 25 acres | Wyoming State Forestry (CDC Area) | SMITH |
| 30 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Worland Field Office | WARNER GULCH |
| 25 August 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Worland Field Office | CANYON CREEK |
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 14 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Ten Sleep: 7 past producers, 5 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Uranium, Nitrogen-Nitrates. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Nitrogen-Nitrates | Occurrence | ||
| Packer Group | Uranium | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Uranium | Producer | Stratabound | |
| Unknown | Uranium | Occurrence | Stratabound | |
| Ten Sleep Area | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Occurrence | ||
| Tenseep Canyon | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Prospect | ||
| Davis Pit #1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Davis Pit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
28 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ten Sleep in 28 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 14 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 funnel cloud, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ten Sleep | $50,000 | Ping pong ball sized hail driven by wind gusts estimated to be around 85 mph damaged roofs, rain gutters, windows, and siding of several homes in the Nowood River Valley south of Ten Sleep. The wind also ripped metal roofing from a garage, while another garage was significantly damaged by a toppled Cottonwood tree. A rear flank downdraft associated with a nearby supercell thunderstorm was responsible for the damaging wind. |
| August 2010 | Hail | Ten Sleep | $30,000 | Ping pong ball sized hail fell for several minutes at ranches just west of State Highway 434. Substantial damage was done to the sorghum crop at one ranch. |
| June 2018 | Tornado (EF2) | Ten Sleep | $20,000 | An EF-2 tornado with maximum winds at 130 mph touched down in Northeast Washakie county in a heavily forested area at around 8000 feet. The tornado downed and snapped off around 1,000 trees near ground level during its short path. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ten Sleep | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Flood | Ten Sleep | - | The Washakie County emergency manager reported two small mudslides in Ten Sleep Canyon. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Ten Sleep | - | The CO-OP Observer near Big Trails reported half dollar to ping pong ball size hail 3 miles north of Big Trails. |
| May 2018 | Flood | Ten Sleep | - | Washakie County sheriff deputies reported flooding around the Ten Sleep Creek bridge along Highway 16. The water flooded several campsites. The water also got close to surface of the bridge but never topped it. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Ten Sleep | - | A storm chaser reported ping pong ball size hail near Ten Sleep. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Ten Sleep | - | The public reported quarter size hail to the east of Ten Sleep. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Ten Sleep | - | A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail at a ranch southeast of Ten Sleep. |
| August 2010 | Hail | Ten Sleep | - | Penny sized hail fell at the Wigwam Fish Rearing Station east of Ten Sleep. |
| August 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Ten Sleep | - | A funnel cloud which appeared white continued to spin for several minutes after a tornado dissipated. |
| July 2003 | Flash Flood | Ten Sleep | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Ten Sleep | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Ten Sleep | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Ten Sleep | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Ten Sleep | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Ten Sleep | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ten Sleep | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Ten Sleep | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Ten Sleep | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Ten Sleep | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Ten Sleep | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ten Sleep | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Ten Sleep | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ten Sleep | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Ten Sleep | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Ten Sleep | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| French Vee | 24.6 miles | 6 | |
| Washakie Ten | 24.6 miles | 10 | |
| Eccles | 25.3 miles | 9 | |
| Durkee | 25.4 miles | 9 | |
| Airport Road | 26.5 miles | 8 | |
| Worland | 26.7 miles | 10 | |
| West River | 27.0 miles | 10 | |
| South Flat | 30.2 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.
| Wikipedia article on Ten Sleep | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1029742 | 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 1595354. 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.







