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Washam, Wyoming

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Green River South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82938. The Survey maps it on the Antelope Wash quadrangle. 39 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,860 feet above sea level.

Washam within Sweetwater County

Population over time

2 figures

Washam fell from 51 to 39 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
201051
202039-12 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

17 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Washam between 2001 and 2020, burning about 103 acres in total. 11 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
Natural11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1

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
8 August 2016Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBIG TREE
6 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeCOTTONWOOD
23 August 2020Naturalunder an acreNortheast AreaSTATE LINE 2
5 July 2001Naturalunder an acreAshley National ForestSTATELINE
5 July 2001Naturalunder an acreAshley National ForestJAY SPOT
26 July 2004Naturalunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
23 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSweetwater CountyBUTTERS FIRE
21 July 2010Naturalunder an acreKemmerer Field OfficeMM 137

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sweetwater County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Washam: 6 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Iron, Uranium. 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
Unknown-No. 1UraniumOccurrence
Little Daggett ChiefIron, ManganesePast Producer
Little Daggett Chief. WorkingsIron, ManganeseOccurrenceReplacement
Daggett Chief WorkingsManganeseOccurrence1890
Birch Spring Draw Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Birch Spring Draw Gravel Pit.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Lucerne Valley Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sheep Creek Canal Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Sheep Creek Canal Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working 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
McKinnon8.9 miles9
Rendezvous10.0 miles9
Burntfork12.5 miles8
Squaw Hollow (historical)15.0 miles10
Greenhough Place28.1 miles10
Little America36.7 miles8
Granger Junction37.3 miles8
Bryan38.5 miles9

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 WashamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q941015The 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 1853217. 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.