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The Bighorn Basin is a plateau region and intermontane basin, approximately 100 miles (160 km) wide, in north-central Wyoming in the United States. It is bounded by the Absaroka Range on the west, the Pryor Mountains on the north, the Bighorn Mountains on the east, and the Owl Creek Mountains and Bridger Mountains on the south.
The Cloverly Formation is a geological formation of Early and Late Cretaceous age (Valanginian to Cenomanian stage) that is present in parts of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah in the western United States. It was named for a post office on the eastern side of the Bighorn Basin in Wyoming by N.H. Darton in 1904.
The Bighorn River is a tributary of the Yellowstone, approximately 461 miles (742 km) long, in the states of Wyoming and Montana in the western United States. The river was named in 1805 by fur trader François Larocque for the bighorn sheep he saw along its banks as he explored the Yellowstone.
Topographic map of the western United States (and part of Canada) showing the Bighorn Basin (highlighted in orange), formed by the Laramide Orogeny In the United States, these distinctive intermontane basins occur principally in the central Rocky Mountains from Colorado and Utah ( Uinta Basin ) to Montana and are best developed in Wyoming ...
The range is the location of the headwaters of the Little Bighorn, Tongue, and Powder rivers. Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area consists of approximately 120,000 acres (490 km 2) within the Bighorn Mountains. It includes Bighorn Lake, a reservoir damming the Bighorn River. In 2015, a sudden, huge 'gash' was found in Wyoming's Big Horn ...
Basin: Newspaper office with vintage equipment, active 1924–1974 printing the continuation of the Bighorn Basin's first newspaper, established in 1889 by Joseph Newton DeBarthe—a key record of local history. [7] 4: Bear Creek Ranch Medicine Wheel: May 4, 1987 : Address restricted [8] Greybull vicinity: 5: Big Horn Academy Historic District
Map of the Powder and Wind River and Bighorn Basins Map of the Green River Basin Map of the Uinta and Piceance Basins. The Wasatch Formation is found across six states in the northwestern United States, from Montana [11] and Idaho in the north across Utah [12] and Wyoming to Colorado in the southwest.
The Bighorn National Forest was established as the Big Horn National Forest on 22 February 1897, and encompasses 1,198,080 acres. On 1 July 1908 the name was changed to the Bighorn National Forest through an executive order. In September 1981 the national forest had 1,115,171 acres, with 1,107,670 of those acres being National Forest land. [7]