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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.

Wamsutter within Sweetwater County

Population over time

2 figures

Wamsutter 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.

YearPeople Change
2010451
2020203-248 (-55%)

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

21 since 1995

Regional 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/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks1
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
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeTRAILER FIRE
24 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeMM 174 AND A HALF
2 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance13 acresRawlins Field OfficeFREWEN
16 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeMILE MARKER 169
1 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeMM 173
5 August 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeWELL FIRE TIERNEY
25 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSweetwater CountyWAMSUTTER
25 August 2020Naturalunder an acreSweetwater County318 BUGAS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sweetwater County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
State Highway DeptSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownClayOccurrence

Every working recorded in Sweetwater County

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2009Thunderstorm WindWamsutter$15,000Power lines were downed and at least one home under construction was damaged in Wamsutter by strong thunderstorm wind.
May 2018HailWamsutter-Quarter size hail was reported at a truck stop in Wamsutter.
April 2009Funnel CloudWamsutter-A funnel cloud reported to be just north of Wamsutter was photographed from Interstate 80.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindWamsutter-Wind instrumentation at the Kennecott Uranium Mine measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 63 mph.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindWamsutter-no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindWamsutter-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindWamsutter-no account filed
May 2001Funnel CloudWamsutter-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindWamsutter-no account filed
July 1998Funnel CloudWamsutter-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindWamsutter-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sweetwater 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
Red Desert7.7 miles8
Creston12.0 miles10
Creston Junction13.9 miles10
Tipton15.4 miles7
Robinson18.8 miles7
Table Rock22.0 miles7
Riner23.1 miles10
J O Junction23.8 miles7

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 WamsutterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1028056The 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.