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Sheridan is a city in the U.S. state of Wyoming and the county seat of Sheridan County. [4] The city is located halfway between Yellowstone Park and Mount Rushmore by U.S. Route 14 and 16 . It is the principal town of the Sheridan, Wyoming, Micropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Sheridan County.
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.
Wyoming is the 10th most extensive, but the least populous and the 2nd least densely populated of the 50 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 ...
Wyoming is the 10th most extensive, but the least populous and the 2nd least densely populated of the 50 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 ...
Wyoming's municipalities cover only 0.3% of the state's land mass but are home to 68.3% of its population. [2] Wyoming's largest municipality by population is the capital city Cheyenne with 65,132 residents, [1] and the largest municipality by land area is Casper, which spans 26.9 sq mi (70 km 2), while the smallest municipality in both ...
Sheridan County is a county in the U.S. state of Wyoming. As of the 2020 United States Census , the population was 30,921. [ 1 ] The county seat is Sheridan . [ 2 ]
The Bighorn Mountains (Crow: Basawaxaawúua, lit. 'our mountains' or Iisaxpúatahchee Isawaxaawúua, 'bighorn sheep's mountains' [1]) are a mountain range in northern Wyoming and southern Montana in the United States, forming a northwest-trending spur from the Rocky Mountains extending approximately 200 mi (320 km) northward on the Great Plains.
Wyoming is a dry state with much of the land receiving less than 10 inches (250 mm) of rainfall per year. Precipitation depends on elevation with lower areas in the Big Horn Basin averaging 5–8 inches (130–200 mm), making the area nearly a true desert.