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Casper, Wyoming. / 42.85000°N 106.32500°W / 42.85000; -106.32500. Casper is a city in and the county seat of Natrona County, Wyoming, United States. [7] Casper is the second-most populous city in the state after Cheyenne, with the population at 59,038 as of the 2020 census. [4] Casper is nicknamed "The Oil City" and has a long history ...
At-large. Website. www .natronacounty-wy .gov. Natrona County is a county in the U.S. state of Wyoming. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 79,955, [1] making it the second-most populous county in Wyoming. Its county seat is Casper. [2]
August 12, 1971; July 19, 1976. Fort Caspar was a military post of the United States Army in present-day Wyoming, named after 2nd Lieutenant Caspar Collins, a U.S. Army officer who was killed in the 1865 Battle of the Platte Bridge Station against the Lakota and Cheyenne. Founded in 1859 along the banks of the North Platte River as a trading ...
UTC−6 ( MDT) The Casper, WY Metropolitan Statistical Area is a United States Census Bureau defined Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) with the principal city being Casper in central State of Wyoming. The Casper Metropolitan Statistical Area is defined as Natrona County, Wyoming. The Casper Metro Area is the economic hub of central Wyoming.
History. Casper had airline flights in the 1930s at Wardwell Field, north of town at 42°54′47″N106°21′00″W42.913°N 106.35°W. The airport started as the Casper Army Airfield in September 1942, [6] consisting of four asphalt hard surfaced runways – N/S, NE/SW, E/W, NW/SE – varying in length between 8,900 feet (2,700 m) and 8,600 ...
A view of the road ( Wyoming Highway 251) climbing the mountain. Casper Mountain, an anticline, is located at the north end of the Laramie Mountains overlooking Casper, Wyoming along the North Platte River. At a top elevation of 8,130 feet (2,478 m), the geological feature rises approximately 3,000 feet (914 m) above Casper.
Wyoming ( / waɪˈoʊmɪŋ / ⓘ wye-OH-ming) [8] is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It borders 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. With a population of 576,851 in 2020, [9] Wyoming is the ...
List of power stations in Wyoming. Sources of Wyoming electricity generation: full-year 2022 [1] Coal (71.1%) Wind (22.1%) Natural Gas (4.3%) Hydroelectric (1.9%) Solar (0.5%) This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of Wyoming, sorted by type and name. In 2021, Wyoming had a total summer capacity of 10,096 MW ...