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.
Population over time
2 figuresY-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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 195 | |
| 2020 | 172 | -23 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1896 USGS Hartville quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Hartville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Wheatland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Torrington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Torrington quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Torrington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Wheatland quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
83 since 2001Regional 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 burning | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Fireworks | 7 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
| 19 September 2005 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 4.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 16 September 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 120 acres | Platte County | HWY 34 |
| 16 September 2018 | Fireworks | under an acre | Platte County | FESTO LAKE FIRE |
| 10 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 10 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 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 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basins Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gibson | 1.3 miles | 13 | |
| Chugcreek | 1.7 miles | 13 | |
| Whiting | 1.7 miles | 13 | |
| Wheatland | 1.8 miles | 13 | |
| Sibylee | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Curtis | 4.1 miles | 13 | |
| Ferguson Corner | 5.4 miles | 8 | |
| Westview Circle | 7.0 miles | 9 |
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 Ranch | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2640193 | 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 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.






