Wapiti, Wyoming

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Cody census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82414. It stands on Dunn Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wapiti quadrangle.

Wapiti within Park County

On record in Wapiti

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Wapiti Ranger StationNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
UXU Ranchlisted 2003

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1955 USGS Cody quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Wapiti quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Cody quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Cody quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Carter Mountain quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1988 USGS Wapiti quadrangle1:24000
1991 USGS Wapiti quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

42 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Wapiti between 1994 and 2020, burning about 12,449 acres in total. 8 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
Recreation and ceremony	15
Natural	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Fireworks	1
Smoking	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
4 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Shoshone National Forest	GREEN CREEK
27 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Park County	FOUR BEAR
12 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Shoshone National Forest	JIM
4 August 2013	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	REMINGTON
23 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Worland Field Office	SHEEP MTN
2 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	12,387 acres	Cody Field Office	WHIT
19 August 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Shoshone National Forest	TABLE MOUNTAIN #2
6 July 2009	Natural	under an acre	Cody Field Office	FOUR BEAR

Every fire recorded in Park County

Storms near this place

9 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wapiti in 9 storm reports between 2001 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 wildfire, 1 flood, 1 lightning. 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
June 2010	Lightning	Wapiti	$20,000	Lightning struck a house southwest of Cody along the South Fork of the Shoshone River. The lightning strike started a fire in the attic of the home, which caused extensive damage.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Wapiti	-	A 62 mph wind gust was reported to the southeast of Wapati.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Wapiti	-	A 65 mph wind gust was reported at Irma Lake.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Wapiti	-	A thunderstorm brought wind gusts as high as 79 mph at Irma Lake. A 61 mph wind gust was reported 9 miles SSE of Wapati.
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Wapiti	-	Wind gusts as high was 64 mph were reported southeast of Wapiti.
June 2008	Flood	Wapiti	-	The North Fork of the Shoshone River crested around 8.5 feet about one-half foot above flood stage. This caused state park officials to sandbag a campground at Buffalo Bill State Park west of Cody. The flooding occurred during the early morning hours as snowmelt water from the previous day progressed downstream.
July 2002	Wildfire	Wapiti	-	no account filed
July 2001	Wildfire	Wapiti	-	no account filed
August 2001	Wildfire	Wapiti	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Park 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Cody	20.6 miles	11
Hawkeye	24.5 miles	16
Pahaska Tepee	27.9 miles	19
Dry Creek	28.6 miles	9
Vocation	29.4 miles	7
Kamms Corner	32.1 miles	7
Clark	33.4 miles	11
Dumbell	34.7 miles	10

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 Wapiti	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7968255	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 1603972. 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.

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.