Mammoth, Wyoming
Mammoth, Wyoming | |
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 Mammoth at dawn | |
  Mammoth Location within the state of Wyoming | |
| Coordinates: 44°58′36″N 110°42′06″W / 44.97667°N 110.70167°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Wyoming |
| County | Park |
| Area | |
| • Total | 0.788 sq mi (2.04 km2) |
| • Land | 0.788 sq mi (2.04 km2) |
| • Water | 0 sq mi (0 km2) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 263 |
| • Density | 330/sq mi (130/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC-7 (Mountain (MST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-6 (MDT) |
| ZIP codes | 82190 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1591192[3] |
Mammoth is a census-designated place in Park County, Wyoming, United States, comprising Fort Yellowstone and Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park. As of the 2010 census, its population was 263.[2]
Education
[edit]K-12 education
[edit]The 2010 U.S. Census states that the CDP is in "School District Not Defined".[4] Students from Mammoth attend Gardiner Public Schools in Gardiner, Montana.[5] The former Mammoth School has a preschool and a community center.[6]
Circa the 1880s there were education programs for dependent children, involving a person hired to teach via money from parents or a soldier providing such services. Some residents chose to send their children to schools in locations towards the east of the country or in Bozeman, Montana. At the time, a lack of transportation options made it difficult to send children to the school in Gardiner. In 1921 the Mammoth School, created by the Park Service, opened. The school at first did not have a fixed location and did not receive funds from the states of Montana nor Wyoming. State funding began in 1948.[6]
In 1963 a permanent building opened, using Mission 66 funding. Prior to 2008, some of the students in Mammoth went to school in Gardiner, but at the time Wyoming did not have an agreement to pay Montana the tuition money. By 2008 more and more Yellowstone employees only were in Yellowstone during park season, and fewer employees had dependent children. Additionally, the interstate agreement to send Wyoming money to Montana was made circa that year. For those two reasons, in 2008 the Mammoth School closed.[6]
By 2022 there was an increase in families with children, historian of Yellowstone Alicia Murphy stated that because no school is in Mammoth, not as many families came as there would be otherwise. Some families have one parent in a Bozeman, Montana with the children attending school in Bozeman instead of in the Mammoth/Gardiner area.[6]
Libraries
[edit]A public library staffed by volunteers opened in the 1940s. A National Park Service document stated that the library ended operations around the decade of the 2000s though "It is not known when the Mammoth library group disbanded".[7]
Climate
[edit]| Climate data for Mammoth | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °F (°C) | 30 (−1) |
34 (1) |
41 (5) |
50 (10) |
60 (16) |
70 (21) |
81 (27) |
79 (26) |
68 (20) |
55 (13) |
39 (4) |
30 (−1) |
53 (12) |
| Mean daily minimum °F (°C) | 11 (−12) |
13 (−11) |
19 (−7) |
27 (−3) |
35 (2) |
42 (6) |
49 (9) |
47 (8) |
39 (4) |
30 (−1) |
20 (−7) |
12 (−11) |
29 (−2) |
| Average snowfall inches (cm) | 11.6 (29) |
9.2 (23) |
10.7 (27) |
6.5 (17) |
2 (5.1) |
0.2 (0.51) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0.3 (0.76) |
3.4 (8.6) |
10.7 (27) |
11.7 (30) |
66.3 (167.97) |
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. February 12, 2011. Retrieved April 23, 2011.
- ^ a b "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved May 14, 2011.
- ^ "Mammoth, Wyoming". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved October 17, 2012.
- ^ "SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP (2010 CENSUS): Park County, WY" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved October 4, 2024. - Text list
The 2020 map does not explicitly state "School District Not Defined" but does not show a label for the area: "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Park County, WY" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. p. 1 (PDF p. 2/3). Retrieved October 4, 2024. - Text list - ^ "About". Gardiner Public Schools. Retrieved January 19, 2020.
- ^ a b c d Weber, Liz (March 16, 2022). "'Location for education': Yellowstone's school shows unique park history". Bozeman Daily Chronicle. Retrieved October 5, 2024.
Also see, cited by the article: Whittlesey, Lee H. "A Brief History of the School at Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming" (PDF). npshistory.com (not an NPS official website). Retrieved October 5, 2024. - The author was at the time an employee of the National Park Service. - ^ "Mammoth Community Library Records 1940-2003" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved October 5, 2024.
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