Wamsutter, Wyoming
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Wamsutter census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82336. The Survey maps it on the Wamsutter quadrangle. 203 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,772 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWamsutter fell from 451 to 203 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 | 451 | |
| 2020 | 203 | -248 (-55%) |
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.
- 1954 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Wamsutter quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1967 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Rawlins quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
21 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Wamsutter between 1995 and 2020, burning about 44 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | TRAILER FIRE |
| 24 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | MM 174 AND A HALF |
| 2 September 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 13 acres | Rawlins Field Office | FREWEN |
| 16 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | MILE MARKER 169 |
| 1 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | MM 173 |
| 5 August 2006 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | WELL FIRE TIERNEY |
| 25 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sweetwater County | WAMSUTTER |
| 25 August 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Sweetwater County | 318 BUGAS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wamsutter: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| State Highway Dept | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Clay | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
11 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wamsutter in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 funnel cloud, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wamsutter | $15,000 | Power lines were downed and at least one home under construction was damaged in Wamsutter by strong thunderstorm wind. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Wamsutter | - | Quarter size hail was reported at a truck stop in Wamsutter. |
| April 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Wamsutter | - | A funnel cloud reported to be just north of Wamsutter was photographed from Interstate 80. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wamsutter | - | Wind instrumentation at the Kennecott Uranium Mine measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 63 mph. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wamsutter | - | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wamsutter | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wamsutter | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Funnel Cloud | Wamsutter | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wamsutter | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Wamsutter | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wamsutter | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Desert | 7.7 miles | 8 | |
| Creston | 12.0 miles | 10 | |
| Creston Junction | 13.9 miles | 10 | |
| Tipton | 15.4 miles | 7 | |
| Robinson | 18.8 miles | 7 | |
| Table Rock | 22.0 miles | 7 | |
| Riner | 23.1 miles | 10 | |
| J O Junction | 23.8 miles | 7 |
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 Wamsutter | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1028056 | 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 1609172. 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.






