Vista West, Wyoming
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Hells Half Acre census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82604. The Survey maps it on the Goose Egg quadrangle. 940 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,276 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresVista West fell from 951 to 940 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 | 951 | |
| 2020 | 940 | -11 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1950 USGS Goose Egg quadrangle1:24000
- 1955 USGS Casper quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Casper quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Goose Egg quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Casper quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Casper quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Casper quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
150 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Vista West between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,553 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 2 were 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 | 88 |
| Natural | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Fireworks | 6 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 30 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 28 acres | Natrona County | POWER LINE |
| 26 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Casper Field Office | CY FIRE |
| 23 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wyoming State Forestry (CPC Area) | EMIGRANT GAP 2 |
| 23 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Natrona County | ZERO |
| 23 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Natrona County | EMIGRANT GAP 3 |
| 23 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wyoming State Forestry (CPC Area) | EMIGRANT GAP 1 |
| 23 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Vista West: 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Bentonite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boels-Rimrock Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Midwest-Thoeming & Wakem | Clay | Producer | ||
| Soap Creek #1 | Bentonite | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Bentonite | Occurrence |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air Base Acres | 1.1 miles | 11 | |
| Mountain View | 2.6 miles | 11 | |
| Paradise Valley | 3.9 miles | 11 | |
| Midwest Heights | 4.0 miles | 11 | |
| Mills | 4.1 miles | 11 | |
| Red Buttes Village | 4.1 miles | 11 | |
| Red Butte | 4.2 miles | 11 | |
| Hartrandt | 4.8 miles | 11 |
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 Vista West | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1942443 | 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 2413680. 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.






