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Y-O Ranch, Wyoming

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Wheatland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82201. The Survey maps it on the Wheatland quadrangle. 172 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,885 feet above sea level.

Y-O Ranch within Platte County

Population over time

2 figures

Y-O Ranch fell from 195 to 172 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
2010195
2020172-23 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

83 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Y-O Ranch between 2001 and 2020, burning about 3,020 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
Debris and open burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Fireworks7
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
19 September 2005Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
16 September 2018Arson/incendiarism120 acresPlatte CountyHWY 34
16 September 2018Fireworksunder an acrePlatte CountyFESTO LAKE FIRE
10 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
10 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
10 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
8 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePlatte County86 I-25

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Platte 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 Y-O Ranch: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Basins MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working 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
Gibson1.3 miles13
Chugcreek1.7 miles13
Whiting1.7 miles13
Wheatland1.8 miles13
Sibylee3.5 miles13
Curtis4.1 miles13
Ferguson Corner5.4 miles8
Westview Circle7.0 miles9

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 Y-O RanchAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2640193The 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 1853220. 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.