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Downtown Green River, looking east at Flaming Gorge Way. Location of Green River in Sweetwater County, Wyoming. / 41.52861°N 109.46611°W / 41.52861; -109.46611. Green River is a city in and the county seat of Sweetwater County, Wyoming, United States, in the southwestern part of the state. [6] The population was 11,825 at the 2020 census.
The Greater Green River Basin (GGRB) is a 21,000 square mile basin located in Southwestern Wyoming. The Basin was formed during the Cretaceous period sourced by underlying Permian and Cretaceous deposits. The GGRB is host to many anticlines created during the Laramide Orogeny trapping many of its hydrocarbon resources.
The Green River, located in the western United States, is the chief tributary of the Colorado River. The watershed of the river, known as the Green River Basin, covers parts of the U.S. states of Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado. The Green River is 730 miles (1,170 km) long, beginning in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming and flowing through ...
Flaming Gorge Reservoir is the largest reservoir in Wyoming, on the Green River, impounded behind the Flaming Gorge Dam. Construction on the dam began in 1958 and was completed in 1964. The reservoir stores 3,788,900 acre-feet (4.6735 × 10 9 m 3) of water when measured at an elevation of 6,040 feet (1,841 m) above sea-level (maximum).
Geology. Type of rock. Migmatite [4] Climbing. First ascent. < 1921 by William Stroud [1] Easiest route. class 2 hiking [2] SE ledges. Squaretop Mountain is an 11,695-foot-elevation (3,565-meter) mountain summit located in Sublette County of Wyoming, United States.
207,363 acres (839.17 km 2) Established. October 1, 1968. Governing body. United States Forest Service. Website. Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area. Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area is a United States national recreation area in Wyoming and Utah. [1] Its centerpiece is the 91 miles (146 km) long Flaming Gorge Reservoir .
The Upper Green River Rendezvous Site is a site on the Green River above and below Daniel, Wyoming, United States. On and near this location, roughly around the confluence of the river with Horse Creek, at least five of the 19th-century Rocky Mountain Rendezvous took place. A 1,200-acre (490 ha) area was declared a National Historic Landmark in ...
Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge of the United States located in western Sweetwater County in the state of Wyoming. It covers 26,400 acres (106 km 2) managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior . The Shoshone people inhabited the region since the year 1300.