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The list of National Historic Landmarks in Wyoming contains the landmarks designated by the U.S. Federal Government located in the U.S. state of Wyoming. There are 28 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) in Wyoming. The first designated were two on December 19, 1960; the latest was on December 11, 2023.
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 Horner site, also known as the Creek site and Horner's Corner site, and designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 48PA29, is an important archaeological site near Cody, Wyoming, United States. It is the type site for the Cody complex . [ 4 ]
Over the years, many archaeologists have been involved with the work at the Hell Gap site. The first two discoverers were avocationalists James Duguid and Malcolm McKnight, but professional archaeologists soon took over excavations after they showed several projectile points to George Agogino, professor of Archaeology at the University of Wyoming.
Gannett Peak is the highest summit of the Wind River Range, the U.S. State of Wyoming, and the Central Rocky Mountains. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [a] of the U.S. State of Wyoming. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
Remnants of the charcoal-making industry in southwestern Wyoming Platte River Crossing: Carbon County: 7 2.8: Point at which the Overland Trail crossed the North Platte River: Point of Rocks Stage Station: Sweetwater County: 1 0.40: Meeting point of the Overland Trail and the Union Pacific Railroad: Quebec-One Missile Alert Facility: Laramie ...
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 .
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 ...