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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]
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Loaf Mountain is located 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Buffalo, Wyoming, in the Bighorn Mountains. It is situated on the boundary that the Cloud Peak Wilderness shares with Bighorn National Forest. [4] The nearest higher neighbor is Bighorn Peak, 3.38 miles (5.44 km) to the northwest.
Powder River Pass (el. 9,666 ft or 2,946 m) is a mountain pass in the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming traversed by U.S. Highway 16 (US 16). [1] Also known as Muddy Pass, it is the highest point on US 16. [1] It is between the towns of Buffalo and Ten Sleep. [2]
Satellite image of the Bighorn Basin in Wyoming, with the bordering ranges labelled Power lines crossing the Bighorn Basin's plains The Bighorn Basin is a plateau region and intermontane basin, approximately 100 miles (160 km) wide, in north-central Wyoming in the United States .
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.
The Thunder Basin National Grassland is located in northeastern Wyoming in the Powder River Basin between the Big Horn Mountains and the Black Hills.The Grassland ranges in elevation from 3,600 to 5,200 feet (1,100 to 1,600 m), and the climate is semi-arid.
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.