Westview Circle, Wyoming
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Wheatland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82201. The Survey maps it on the Hightower quadrangle. 41 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,731 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWestview Circle fell from 52 to 41 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 52 | |
| 2020 | 41 | -11 (-21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Hightower quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Torrington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Torrington quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Laramie Peak quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
46 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Westview Circle between 1996 and 2020, burning about 608 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 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 | 18 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2018 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Platte County | 312 FIRE |
| 16 September 2018 | Fireworks | under an acre | Platte County | FESTO LAKE FIRE |
| 12 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Casper Field Office | FISHY |
| 10 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 8 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Platte County | 86 I-25 |
| 31 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 163 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | WHEELER LAKE |
| 28 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Platte County | PREUIT ROAD FIRE |
| 22 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Platte County | RAWHIDE TRL FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westview Circle in 4 storm reports between 2015 and 2019: 2 flood, 1 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2019 | Flash Flood | Westview Circle | - | Intersection of Palmer Canyon Road and Cooney Hills was under rushing water prompting closure of road to traffic. |
| May 2016 | Flood | Westview Circle | - | County officials reported flooding along several small streams and creeks near Wheatland and along the Laramie River. High elevation snow melt from the Laramie Range produced excessive runoff into area creeks and streams. Flooding was reported over Palmer Canyon Road west of Wheatland near the Laramie River. Water was encroaching along Highway 320. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Westview Circle | - | Quarter size hail was reported 12 miles southwest of Westview Circle. |
| May 2015 | Flood | Westview Circle | - | Two inches of rain in two hours produced flooding with Palmer Canyon Road completely washed out about 15 miles west of Wheatland. |
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.
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 Westview Circle | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1940641 | 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 1853219. 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.



