Weston, Wyoming
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1975. It stands in the Gillette North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82731. The Survey maps it on the Weston quadrangle. It stands 3,802 feet above sea level.
On record in Weston
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 1 record
- Clinker Stone Houselisted 2025
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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 Gillette quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Gillette quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Gillette quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Gillette quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Weston quadrangle1:24000
- 1975 USGS Recluse quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
35 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Weston between 1992 and 2017, burning about 2,321 acres in total. 23 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 7 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | NORFOLK #1 |
| 4 September 2015 | Natural | 2.6 acres | Buffalo Field Office | WESTON HILLS |
| 4 September 2010 | Natural | 36 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | COLLINS FIRE |
| 4 September 2010 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | IR# 10-1479 |
| 30 September 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Casper Field Office | WESTON |
| 8 August 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Buffalo Field Office | COAL CREEK |
| 8 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
60 of 81 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weston in 81 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 53 hail, 25 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash flood. 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 2008 | Hail | Weston | $25,000 | Large hail damaged two houses. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Weston | $15,000 | Hail broke house windows. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weston | $10,000 | A spotter's weather station measured a wind gust of 87 mph. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Weston | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weston | $5,000 | Strong winds knocked down a large tree limb and buckled a garage door, causing minor damage to a house. |
| August 2013 | Hail | Weston | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weston | $3,000 | The combination of strong winds and large hail broke windows. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Weston | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weston | $1,000 | The combination of hail and wind caused minor damage. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Weston | - | The combination of large hail and gusty winds produced some property damage. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weston | - | Several power poles in the area were snapped. A large tree was blown down. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weston | - | A side-by-side UTV and playground equipment were blown over. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Weston | - | Wind gusts to 48 mph accompanied the storm. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Weston | - | Wind gusts around 50 mph also broke tree branches. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weston | - | Wind gusts reached 60 mph. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weston | - | The spotter estimated wind gusts at 60 mph. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weston | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weston | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weston | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weston | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weston | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weston | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| August 2014 | Hail | Weston | - | Golf ball size hail covered the ground. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weston | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weston | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Weston | - | Nickel to golf ball sized hail fell for one hour. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Weston | - | 40 to 50 mph winds occurred with quarter sized hail. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weston | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts caused tree damage. |
| June 1998 | Flash Flood | Weston | - | General flooding was reported near Weston with stock ponds overflowing and roads being threatened. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weston | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Weston | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weston | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adon | 9.8 miles | 8 | |
| Wildcat | 18.2 miles | 8 | |
| Recluse | 21.0 miles | 8 | |
| Rockypoint | 22.6 miles | 8 | |
| Wyodak | 24.0 miles | 10 | |
| Collins Heights | 24.5 miles | 10 | |
| Gillette | 25.4 miles | 9 | |
| Rozet | 25.7 miles | 8 |
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 Weston | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7989376 | 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 1604109. 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.





