Thayne, Wyoming
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Afton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83127. It lies near Smith Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Thayne West quadrangle. 380 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,906 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresThayne grew from 366 to 380 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 | 366 | |
| 2020 | 380 | +14 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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.
- 1915 USGS Freedom quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Thayne West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1982 USGS Soda Springs quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Thayne between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10 acres in total. 6 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 | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Caribou-Targhee National Forest | JACKSON CREEK |
| 29 September 1992 | Natural | 2.5 acres | Bridger-Teton National Forest | STAR |
| 13 September 1994 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Caribou-Targhee National Forest | not named |
| 1 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 25 July 2020 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Lincoln County | MILE 85 |
| 1 July 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Bridger-Teton National Forest | LOST |
| 14 May 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Caribou-Targhee National Forest | JENSEN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Thayne: 5 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lampe Brothers Ready Mix | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
7 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thayne in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2016: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thayne | $1,500 | A one foot diameter aspen tree was felled at Star Valley Ranch by thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Thayne | - | A trained spotter reported penny sized hail southeast of Thayne. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Thayne | - | A strong thunderstorm formed over eastern Idaho and moved into Star Valley. Nickel sized hail fell at the home of a trained weather spotter southeast of Thayne. |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thayne | - | Strong winds of unknown intensity from a thunderstorm lasted five minutes but destroyed irrigation equipment two miles north of Thayne in far western Wyoming. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Thayne | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Flash Flood | Thayne | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Thayne | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bedford | 3.9 miles | 9 | |
| Star Valley Ranch | 4.3 miles | 9 | |
| Turnerville | 6.8 miles | 9 | |
| Etna | 7.8 miles | 15 | |
| Auburn | 8.9 miles | 12 | |
| Grover | 9.6 miles | 9 | |
| Afton | 14.0 miles | 9 | |
| Fairview | 16.1 miles | 9 |
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 Thayne | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1028632 | 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 1603591. 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.





