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A map of the counties and capital city of Wyoming. The U.S. state of Wyoming lies in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States and has a varied geography. It is bordered by Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Idaho to the west, Utah to the southwest, and Colorado to the south.
The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level. [b] [c] The first table below ranks the 40 highest major summits of Wyoming by elevation. The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the summit rises above its surroundings.
The elevation range of the area. [e] All topographic elevations are adjusted to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). All geographic coordinates are adjusted to the World Geodetic System of 1984 (WGS 84). The mean elevation for each state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico are accurate to the nearest 100 feet (30 m).
Wyoming terrain map The federal government owns nearly half of Wyoming's land (about 30,099,430 acres (121,808.1 km 2 )); the state owns another 3,864,800 acres (15,640 km 2 ). [ 11 ] Most of it is administered by the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service in numerous national forests and a national grassland , not to mention vast ...
According to the United States Board on Geographic Names, there are at least 109 named mountain ranges and sub-ranges in Wyoming. Wyoming / w aɪ ˈ oʊ m ɪ ŋ / ⓘ is a state in the mountain region of the Western United States. Wyoming is the 10th most extensive, but the least populous and the 2nd least densely populated of the 50 United States.
Beaver Mountain is located approximately 40 miles (64 km) west of the Continental Divide in the Wyoming Range which is a subrange of the Rocky Mountains. It is set on land managed by Bridger–Teton National Forest and can be seen from Highway 189/191. The nearest city is Jackson, Wyoming, 17 miles (27 km) to
Wyoming – U.S. state in the mountain region of the Western United States. The western two thirds of the state is covered mostly with the mountain ranges and rangelands in the foothills of the Eastern Rocky Mountains , while the eastern third of the state is high elevation prairie known as the High Plains .
The explosion of natural gas wells drilled during Wyoming's most recent energy industry boom continues with more than 2,000 projected wells in the Wamsutter gas field to be operational by 2020. [19] The gas field encompasses an area in the Red Desert about 55 miles (89 km) long and 35 miles (56 km) wide. [18]