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Buffalo is a city in and the county seat of Johnson County, Wyoming, United States. [6] The population was 4,415 at the 2020 census, [3] down from 4,585 at the 2010 census.The city had experienced an economic boom due to methane production from the Coal Bed Methane Extraction method used in the Powder River Basin and surrounding areas. [7]
Johnson County is a county in the north central part of the U.S. state of Wyoming.At the 2020 United States Census, the population was 8,447. [1] The county seat is Buffalo. [2]
Wyoming Highway 196 (WYO 196) is a 49.84-mile-long (80.21 km) north–south Wyoming State Road that travels through central Johnson County, closely paralleling Interstate 25 (I-25). WYO 196 travels from I-25 and U.S. Route 87 (US 87) at exit 249 south of Kaycee to I-25 Business/US 87 Business in Buffalo near Exit 298.
The longest stretch, 65 miles (105 km) between Buffalo and Gillette, was dedicated on October 14, 1962, and cost $18.4 million to construct. [12] It was initially a two-lane limited-access road that was later widened to four lanes. [13] The final link in the 20-mile (32 km) section between Sheridan and Buffalo was opened in December 1968. [14]
Interstate 25 (I-25) is a part of the Interstate Highway System that runs from Las Cruces, New Mexico, to Buffalo, Wyoming.In Wyoming, the Interstate Highway runs 300.530 miles (483.656 km) from the Colorado state line near Cheyenne north to its national terminus at I-90 near Buffalo.
Google Maps and other mapmakers may show US 20 and other U.S. Highways going through Yellowstone National Park; [2] however, they are officially discontinuous and unsigned inside the park. [3] Unofficially, Google Maps marks the start of the western part of US 20, along with US 191 and US 287, at the state line near West Yellowstone, Montana.
It is primarily a north–south highway, serving as the main route through New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming. I-25 stretches from I-10 at Las Cruces, New Mexico (approximately 25 miles [40 km] north of El Paso, Texas) to I-90 in Buffalo, Wyoming (approximately 60 miles [97 km] south of the Montana–Wyoming border). [2]
The Beaver Creek Ranch Headquarters, in the vicinity of Buffalo in the Powder River Basin in Johnson County, Wyoming, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. The ranch has been known as Schoonover Ranch , as Harriet Ranch , and as Iberlin Ranch .