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Wild horses in the Pryor Mountains along the Wyoming-Montana border Bighorn Lake in the South District. Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area is a national recreation area established by an act of Congress on October 15, 1966, following the construction of the Yellowtail Dam by the Bureau of Reclamation.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, Montana and Wyoming, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Big Horn County, Wyoming, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1]
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]
Big Horn County: 200 81: Sandstone cliff with hundreds of Native American petroglyphs and pictographs: Names Hill: Lincoln County: 4.25 1.72: Bluff near a crossing on the Green River where travelers on the Oregon and California trails carved their names Oregon Trail Ruts: Platte County: 34.17 13.83: Remnants of the Oregon Trail's westward ...
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 ...
There are at least 13 named trails in Big Horn County, Wyoming according to the U.S. Geological Survey, Board of Geographic Names. A trail is defined as: "Route for passage from one point to another; does not include roads or highways (jeep trail, path, ski trail)."
Big Horn County was named for the Big Horn Mountains which form its eastern boundary. [4] Originally, the county included the entire Big Horn Basin, but in 1909 Park County, WY was created from a portion of Big Horn County, and in 1911 Hot Springs and Washakie counties were created from portions of Big Horn, leaving the county with its present ...