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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.

Thayne within Lincoln County

Population over time

2 figures

Thayne 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.

YearPeople Change
2010366
2020380+14 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

7 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural6
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
9 September 2001Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestJACKSON CREEK
29 September 1992Natural2.5 acresBridger-Teton National ForestSTAR
13 September 1994Natural5.0 acresCaribou-Targhee National Forestnot named
1 August 2003Naturalunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
25 July 2020Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresLincoln CountyMILE 85
1 July 2000Naturalunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestLOST
14 May 2013Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestJENSEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lampe Brothers Ready MixSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

7 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2010Thunderstorm WindThayne$1,500A one foot diameter aspen tree was felled at Star Valley Ranch by thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2016HailThayne-A trained spotter reported penny sized hail southeast of Thayne.
June 2010HailThayne-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 1994Thunderstorm WindThayne-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 2006HailThayne-no account filed
August 1997Flash FloodThayne-no account filed
June 1997HailThayne-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Bedford3.9 miles9
Star Valley Ranch4.3 miles9
Turnerville6.8 miles9
Etna7.8 miles15
Auburn8.9 miles12
Grover9.6 miles9
Afton14.0 miles9
Fairview16.1 miles9

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 ThayneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1028632The 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.