BlockWilcox, Wyoming
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Rock River census division. The Survey maps it on the Wilcox quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 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 Cheyenne quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Wilcox quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Cheyenne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Rock River quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Wilcox between 2006 and 2020, burning about 335 acres in total. 1 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 | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Albany County | MARSHALL |
| 12 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.2 acres | Albany County | ROCK RIVER 1 |
| 12 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Albany County | ROCK RIVER 2 |
| 7 June 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | TOWER |
| 9 October 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 29 October 2014 | Debris and open burning | 330 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | FETTERMAN FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilcox in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Hail | Wilcox | - | Spotter drove through the area after the storm. Noted that snow plow was clearing away accumulated hail on US-287. Saw a few quarter size hailstones on the side of the road. Time estimated from radar. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilcox | - | A wind gust estimated at 65 mph was reported three miles north of Rock River. |
| July 2014 | Flash Flood | Wilcox | - | Nearly two inches of rain in two hours caused flash flooding 13 miles north of Rock River. Eight to ten inches of water covered Ambler Springs Road and County Road 610. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Wilcox | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock River | 3.6 miles | 8 | |
| Rock Creek (historical) | 7.1 miles | 8 | |
| Harper | 7.6 miles | 8 | |
| Lookout | 13.0 miles | 8 | |
| Cooper Lake | 15.8 miles | 8 | |
| Bosler | 21.4 miles | 8 | |
| Bosler Junction | 23.0 miles | 8 | |
| Wyoming | 28.5 miles | 18 |
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 Wilcox | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q8000308 | 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 1597539. 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.