West River, Wyoming

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Worland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82401. The Survey maps it on the Worland quadrangle. 321 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 4,078 feet above sea level.

West River within Washakie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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 Sheridan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Worland quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Worland quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

104 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of West River between 1993 and 2020, burning about 350 acres in total. 3 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	43
Debris and open burning	37
Fireworks	10
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
23 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	205 20 NORTH FIRE
2 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
8 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.1 acres	Worland Field Office	TEN MILE
3 August 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.4 acres	Washakie County	POWERLINE FIRE
26 August 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washakie County	650 WEST RIVER ROAD
25 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	11-000156
23 August 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Washakie County	1069 WEST RIVER ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washakie 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
Washakie Ten	2.4 miles	10
Durkee	3.1 miles	9
Eccles	3.6 miles	9
Worland	5.6 miles	10
Airport Road	7.3 miles	8
Colter	10.3 miles	10
South Flat	12.0 miles	10
Winchester	19.8 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 West River	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1940655	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 1853218. 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.