Veteran, Wyoming
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Torrington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82243. The Survey maps it on the Veteran quadrangle. 21 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,239 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresVeteran fell from 23 to 21 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 | 23 | |
| 2020 | 21 | -2 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 12 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 Goshen Hole quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Cheyenne quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Cheyenne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Veteran quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Veteran quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
13 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Veteran between 1992 and 2020, burning about 373 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 | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 1 July 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 11 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Goshen County | GID CANAL BURN |
| 1 April 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 28 March 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 1 February 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 200 acres | Goshen County | MUD SPRINGS WELDER FIRE 2 |
| 17 December 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Goshen County | 3544 RD 52 |
| 1 October 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
17 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Veteran in 17 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 14 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Veteran | $35,000 | Goshen County Emergency Management reported a flipped center pivot near the intersection of Wyoming 154 and Road 60, 1 mile N of Veteran. This type of damage is consistent with approximately 90 MPH wind gusts. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Veteran | - | A trained weather spotter reported ping pong ball sized hail 8 miles WSW of Yoder. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Veteran | - | Initially ping pong ball size hail gradually becoming smaller, closer to dime size. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Veteran | - | Goshen County Emergency Management confirmed ping-pong ball sized hail on the ground near the intersection of Wyoming 154 and Road 60, 1 mile N of Veteran, after the storm passed. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Veteran | - | An Emergency Manager reported roads covered in hail accumulation 2 miles NW of Veteran. Largest hail stone was golf ball size. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Veteran | - | Half dollar size hail was observed three miles north of Veteran. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Veteran | - | Quarter size hail was reported in Veteran. |
| June 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Veteran | - | A weak tornado touched down in open country southwest of Veteran. It remained on the ground for a few minutes before dissipating. No damage was reported. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Veteran | - | Quarter size hail was reported at the intersection of County Roads 50 and 15. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Veteran | - | A severe thunderstorm produced hail around 1 inch in diameter as it tracked slowly eastward across a portion of Goshen county, Wyoming, with the largest hail reported from Yoder, Wyoming. |
| September 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Veteran | - | 70 MPH wind gust. |
| July 1999 | Hail | Veteran | - | 3/4 inch hail reported 4 miles west of Veteran, WY |
| July 2023 | Hail | Veteran | - | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Hail | Veteran | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Veteran | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Veteran | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Veteran | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heldt | 3.3 miles | 18 | |
| Yoder | 5.6 miles | 13 | |
| Silver Tip | 6.9 miles | 13 | |
| Cottier | 7.4 miles | 18 | |
| Fonda | 9.4 miles | 12 | |
| Rockeagle | 11.0 miles | 16 | |
| Lingle | 12.0 miles | 18 | |
| South Torrington | 12.2 miles | 17 |
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 Veteran | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1941963 | 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 1595926. 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.




