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[2] [3] White Mountain is part of the Leucite Hills topography of southwestern, Wyoming. The peak itself is 7,623 feet (2,323 m) in elevation and is located 5.4 miles (9 km) from Rock Springs, Wyoming and 8.85 miles (14 km) from Green River, Wyoming.
Rock Springs is the principal city of the Rock Springs micropolitan statistical area, which has a population of 37,975. Rock Springs is known as the Home of 56 Nationalities because of the influx of immigrants from all over the world who came to work in the coal mines that supplied the fuel to power the steam engines of the Union Pacific Railroad.
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.
Wilkins Peak is a small mountain located in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, between the cities of Green River and Rock Springs. It is primarily used for radio and television station transmitters, but it also serves radio needs of the FAA, EMS, and local businesses such as Questar Gas. In 2003, a tower on the peak was knocked down by a vehicle ...
North Rock Springs is located at (41.648963, -109.263707 [ 4 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 14.78 square miles (38.3 km 2 ), of which 14.75 square miles (38.2 km 2 ) is land and 0.02 square mile (0.06 km 2 ) (0.16%) is water.
Boars Tusk is an isolated remains of a volcano within the Rock Springs Uplift in the Green River Basin of southwestern Wyoming.It has a peak elevation of 7,101 ft (2,164 m) and rises some 400 ft (120 m) above the surrounding Killpecker Creek plain and lies 26.2 mi (42.2 km) north of Rock Springs.
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 ...
Sweetwater County is a county in southwestern Wyoming, United States. [2] As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 42,272, making it the fourth-most populous county in Wyoming. [3] Its county seat is Green River. [4] By area, it is the largest county in Wyoming. Its southern boundary line abuts the north lines of the states of ...