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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Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 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.
- 1893 USGS Fort Steele quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1914 USGS Walcott quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Walcott quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Medicine Bow quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
16 since 1994Regional 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 maintenance | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2006 | Smoking | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | SAINT MARYS CREEK |
| 27 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.5 acres | Rawlins Field Office | MM 236 |
| 8 August 2004 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | WALCOTT RR |
| 5 August 1994 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 60 acres | Rawlins Field Office | RR#2 |
| 4 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.8 acres | Rawlins Field Office | WALCOTT |
| 2 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | SAINT MARYS |
| 29 July 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | RR 1 |
| 21 July 1996 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 20 acres | Rawlins Field Office | SAINT MARY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Steele Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Ft. Steele Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Rawlins Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
28 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walcott | - | Wydot station 7 NW of Elk Mountain. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walcott | - | Mesonet station WY18 at Halleck Ridge. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walcott | - | Mesonet station WY18 at Halleck Ridge. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walcott | - | Mesonet station WY18 at Halleck Ridge. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walcott | - | Mesonet station WY18 at Halleck Ridge reported a 70 mph wind gust 7 miles northwest of Elk Mountain. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walcott | - | A shower passing over Interstate 80 resulted in strong, gusty winds. A WYDOT sensor at Walcott Junction on Interstate 80 gusted 64 MPH. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walcott | - | Mesonet station WY18 Halleck Ridge. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walcott | - | WYDOT mesonet station Halleck Ridge (WY18) along Interstate 80 measured maximum wind gust. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walcott | - | WYDOT mesonet station along Interstate 80 at Halleck Ridge (WY18) measured wind gust. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walcott | - | WYDOT mesonet station along Interstate 80 at Halleck Ridge (WY18) measured wind gust 7 miles northwest of Elk Mountain. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walcott | - | WYDOT mesonet station along Interstate 80 at Halleck Ridge (WY18) measured wind gust 7 miles northwest of Elk Mountain. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walcott | - | A wind gust to 68 MPH was measured 7 miles NW of Elk Mountain. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walcott | - | WYDOT mesonet station along Interstate 80 at Halleck Ridge (WY18) measured wind gust 7 miles northwest of Elk Mountain. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walcott | - | WYDOT mesonet station Halleck Ridge (WY18) along Interstate 80 measured wind gust 7 miles northwest of Elk Mountain. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walcott | - | WYDOT mesonet station along Interstate 80 at mile marker 249 reported wind gust. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walcott | - | WYDOT mesonet station WY18 Halleck Ridge along Interstate 80 7 miles northwest of Elk Mountain reported thunderstorm wind gust. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walcott | - | WYDOT mesonet station WY18 Halleck Ridge along Interstate 80 7 miles northwest of Elk Mountain reported thunderstorm wind gust. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walcott | - | WYDOT mesonet station WY18 Halleck Ridge along Interstate 80 7 miles northwest of Elk Mountain reported thunderstorm wind gust. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walcott | - | Wyoming Department of Transportation site at mile marker 249 measured the reported wind speed. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walcott | - | 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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walcott | - | 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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walcott | - | Wyoming Department of Transportation site (WY18), Halleck Ridge measured the reported wind speed. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walcott | - | Winds measured at the Wyoming Department of Transportation sensor at Halleck Ridge along Interstate 80. |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walcott | - | Wyoming Department of Transportation sensor at Halleck Ridge along Interstate 80 measured the reported wind gust. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walcott | - | A peak wind gust of 66 mph was measured at the Halleck Ridge WYDOT sensor northwest of Elk Mountain. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walcott | - | Wind measured by the Wyoming Department of Transportation at Halleck Ridge, northwest of Elk Mountain. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walcott | - | WYDOT sensor at Walcott Junction east of Sinclair measured wind gusts of 63 mph. |
| June 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Walcott | - | 2 funnel clouds near Walcott |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coyote Springs | 4.2 miles | 16 | |
| Edson | 4.6 miles | 16 | |
| Fort Steele | 5.5 miles | 15 | |
| Old McKeal Place | 13.4 miles | 15 | |
| Sinclair | 14.2 miles | 11 | |
| Old Haymaker Place | 15.9 miles | 15 | |
| Hanna | 16.8 miles | 17 | |
| Elmo | 18.3 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 Walcott | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7961342 | 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 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.








