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Walcott, Wyoming

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Hanna census division. The Survey maps it on the Walcott quadrangle. It stands 6,627 feet above sea level.

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Walcott within Carbon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Walcott between 1994 and 2020, burning about 109 acres in total. 1 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
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
29 September 2006Smokingunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeSAINT MARYS CREEK
27 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresRawlins Field OfficeMM 236
8 August 2004Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeWALCOTT RR
5 August 1994Railroad operations and maintenance60 acresRawlins Field OfficeRR#2
4 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresRawlins Field OfficeWALCOTT
2 August 2011Naturalunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeSAINT MARYS
29 July 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeRR 1
21 July 1996Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresRawlins Field OfficeSAINT MARY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Walcott: 3 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. 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
Fort Steele PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ft. Steele PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rawlins Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this place

28 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walcott in 28 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 27 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindWalcott-Wydot station 7 NW of Elk Mountain.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindWalcott-Mesonet station WY18 at Halleck Ridge.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindWalcott-Mesonet station WY18 at Halleck Ridge.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindWalcott-Mesonet station WY18 at Halleck Ridge.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindWalcott-Mesonet station WY18 at Halleck Ridge reported a 70 mph wind gust 7 miles northwest of Elk Mountain.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindWalcott-A shower passing over Interstate 80 resulted in strong, gusty winds. A WYDOT sensor at Walcott Junction on Interstate 80 gusted 64 MPH.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindWalcott-Mesonet station WY18 Halleck Ridge.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindWalcott-WYDOT mesonet station Halleck Ridge (WY18) along Interstate 80 measured maximum wind gust.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWalcott-WYDOT mesonet station along Interstate 80 at Halleck Ridge (WY18) measured wind gust.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWalcott-WYDOT mesonet station along Interstate 80 at Halleck Ridge (WY18) measured wind gust 7 miles northwest of Elk Mountain.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWalcott-WYDOT mesonet station along Interstate 80 at Halleck Ridge (WY18) measured wind gust 7 miles northwest of Elk Mountain.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindWalcott-A wind gust to 68 MPH was measured 7 miles NW of Elk Mountain.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindWalcott-WYDOT mesonet station along Interstate 80 at Halleck Ridge (WY18) measured wind gust 7 miles northwest of Elk Mountain.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindWalcott-WYDOT mesonet station Halleck Ridge (WY18) along Interstate 80 measured wind gust 7 miles northwest of Elk Mountain.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWalcott-WYDOT mesonet station along Interstate 80 at mile marker 249 reported wind gust.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindWalcott-WYDOT mesonet station WY18 Halleck Ridge along Interstate 80 7 miles northwest of Elk Mountain reported thunderstorm wind gust.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindWalcott-WYDOT mesonet station WY18 Halleck Ridge along Interstate 80 7 miles northwest of Elk Mountain reported thunderstorm wind gust.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindWalcott-WYDOT mesonet station WY18 Halleck Ridge along Interstate 80 7 miles northwest of Elk Mountain reported thunderstorm wind gust.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindWalcott-Wyoming Department of Transportation site at mile marker 249 measured the reported wind speed.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindWalcott-Wyoming Department of Transportation sensor along Interstate 80 about seven miles northwest of Elk Mountain measured the reported wind gust speed. A review of available lightning data showed no lightning associated with the parent cell that produced these winds.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindWalcott-Wyoming Department of Transportation sensor along Interstate 80 about nine miles south of Hanna or nine miles west-northwest of Elk Mountain measured the reported wind gust. A review of available lightning data showed no lightning associated with the parent cell that produced these winds.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindWalcott-Wyoming Department of Transportation site (WY18), Halleck Ridge measured the reported wind speed.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindWalcott-Winds measured at the Wyoming Department of Transportation sensor at Halleck Ridge along Interstate 80.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindWalcott-Wyoming Department of Transportation sensor at Halleck Ridge along Interstate 80 measured the reported wind gust.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindWalcott-A peak wind gust of 66 mph was measured at the Halleck Ridge WYDOT sensor northwest of Elk Mountain.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindWalcott-Wind measured by the Wyoming Department of Transportation at Halleck Ridge, northwest of Elk Mountain.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindWalcott-WYDOT sensor at Walcott Junction east of Sinclair measured wind gusts of 63 mph.
June 1997Funnel CloudWalcott-2 funnel clouds near Walcott

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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
Coyote Springs4.2 miles16
Edson4.6 miles16
Fort Steele5.5 miles15
Old McKeal Place13.4 miles15
Sinclair14.2 miles11
Old Haymaker Place15.9 miles15
Hanna16.8 miles17
Elmo18.3 miles17

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 WalcottAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7961342The 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 1595988. 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.