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Wycross, Wyoming

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Goshen Hole census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82221. It stands on Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the La Grange quadrangle.

Wycross within Goshen County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Wycross between 1992 and 2020, burning about 110 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined6
Natural2
Debris and open burning1
Fireworks1

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
28 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresGoshen CountyHWY 151 09282020
19 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
14 September 2017Natural8.0 acresGoshen CountyMILE MARKER 60 FIRE
4 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreGoshen County202 E STREET
19 July 2017Natural3.0 acresGoshen CountyROAD 51 FIRE
1 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
30 April 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresGoshen CountyMILE MARKER 60 FIRE.
15 February 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresGoshen CountyMALM RANCH CONTROLLED BURN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Goshen County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wycross: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Goshen Hole PlacersGoldOccurrencePlacer

Every working recorded in Goshen County

Storms near this place

10 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wycross in 10 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 9 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
June 2025HailWycross-NWS Emloyees reported being impacted by 1.5in hail on their way back to the office. Lost wiper blade due to hail.
June 2025HailWycross-Trained spotter reported ping pong ball sized hail.
July 2020Flash FloodWycross-Highway 85 had over two inches of running water over road and still raining hard.
July 2016HailWycross-Golf ball size hail fell on U.S. Highway 85 four miles northwest of La Grange.
June 2015HailWycross-Ping pong ball size hail was observed four miles north of La Grange.
May 2015HailWycross-Quarter size hail was observed about 22 miles south-southeast of Torrington.
July 2015HailWycross-Quarter size hail was observed nine miles northwest of Meriden.
June 2015HailWycross-Quarter size hail was observed 10 miles west of Meriden.
July 2013HailWycross-Ping pong ball size hail was reported east of Hawk Springs.
June 2018HailWycross-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Goshen 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
La Grange3.1 miles12
Hawk Springs8.3 miles12
Fonda12.6 miles12
Trelona (historical)14.4 miles13
Silver Tip16.7 miles13
Yoder17.2 miles13
Huntley17.6 miles13
Veteran22.0 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q122558948The 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 1597555. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.