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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.

Westview Circle within Platte County

Population over time

2 figures

Westview 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.

YearPeople Change
201052
202041-11 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

46 since 1996

Regional 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning10
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
21 September 2018Smoking1.0 acresPlatte County312 FIRE
16 September 2018Fireworksunder an acrePlatte CountyFESTO LAKE FIRE
12 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresCasper Field OfficeFISHY
10 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
8 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePlatte County86 I-25
31 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined163 acresWyoming State ForestryWHEELER LAKE
28 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acrePlatte CountyPREUIT ROAD FIRE
22 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresPlatte CountyRAWHIDE TRL FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Platte County

Storms near this place

4 since 2015

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2019Flash FloodWestview Circle-Intersection of Palmer Canyon Road and Cooney Hills was under rushing water prompting closure of road to traffic.
May 2016FloodWestview 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 2015HailWestview Circle-Quarter size hail was reported 12 miles southwest of Westview Circle.
May 2015FloodWestview Circle-Two inches of rain in two hours produced flooding with Palmer Canyon Road completely washed out about 15 miles west of Wheatland.

Every storm recorded in Platte 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
Wheatland6.0 miles13
Sibylee6.2 miles13
Curtis6.3 miles13
Gibson6.5 miles13
Whiting6.6 miles13
Y-O Ranch7.0 miles13
Natwick7.1 miles8
Chugcreek7.8 miles13

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 CircleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1940641The 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.