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The Colorado River is an approximately 862-mile-long (1,387 km) river [5] in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the 11th longest river in the United States [ 5 ] and the longest river with both its source and its mouth within Texas.
Frontier Oil owned refineries in Cheyenne, Wyoming and El Dorado, Kansas. Its Cheyenne refinery has a capacity of 52,000 barrels per day (8,300 m 3 /d) (bpd) and the El Dorado Refinery has a capacity of 110,000 bbl/d (17,000 m 3 /d). [2] [3] Frontier merged with Holly Corporation in 2011 to form HollyFrontier Corporation.
The Cheyenne River (Lakota: Wakpá Wašté; "Good River" [2]), also written Chyone, [3] referring to the Cheyenne people who once lived there, [4] is a tributary of the Missouri River in the U.S. states of Wyoming and South Dakota. It is approximately 295 miles (475 km) long and drains an area of 24,240 square miles (62,800 km 2). [5]
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Wyoming. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).
The Sinclair Oil and Refining Corporation amalgamated the assets of 11 small petroleum companies. [3] Originally a New York corporation, Sinclair Oil reincorporated in Wyoming in 1976. [ 4 ] The corporate logo featured the silhouette of a large green Brontosaurus dinosaur , based on the then-common idea that oil deposits beneath the earth came ...
The Green, flowing from the Wind River Range of western Wyoming, drains 48,000 square miles (120,000 km 2) in southwest Wyoming, northeast Utah and northwest Colorado. It is much longer than the Colorado above their confluence and carries a larger load of silt, though the Colorado has a slightly greater flow.
Cheyenne (/ ʃ aɪ ˈ æ n / shy-AN or / ʃ aɪ ˈ ɛ n / shy-EN) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Wyoming, as well as the county seat of Laramie County, with 65,132 residents, per the 2020 census. [6]
The Colorado River Headwaters National Scenic Byway is an 80-mile (129 km) National Scenic Byway and Colorado Scenic and Historic Byway located in Eagle and Grand counties, Colorado, US. The byway follows the upper Colorado River from Grand Lake down to State Bridge .