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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.

Vista West within Natrona County

Population over time

2 figures

Vista 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.

YearPeople Change
2010951
2020940-11 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

150 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined88
Natural17
Equipment and vehicle use10
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Fireworks6
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism2
Firearms and explosives use1
Other causes1

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
4 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
30 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use28 acresNatrona CountyPOWER LINE
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCasper Field OfficeCY FIRE
23 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestry (CPC Area)EMIGRANT GAP 2
23 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNatrona CountyZERO
23 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNatrona CountyEMIGRANT GAP 3
23 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestry (CPC Area)EMIGRANT GAP 1
23 September 2005Naturalunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Natrona County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Boels-Rimrock PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Midwest-Thoeming & WakemClayProducer
Soap Creek #1BentoniteProducer
UnknownBentoniteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Natrona 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
Air Base Acres1.1 miles11
Mountain View2.6 miles11
Paradise Valley3.9 miles11
Midwest Heights4.0 miles11
Mills4.1 miles11
Red Buttes Village4.1 miles11
Red Butte4.2 miles11
Hartrandt4.8 miles11

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 WestAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1942443The 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.