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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.
The Green River Formation is an Eocene geologic formation that records the sedimentation in a group of intermountain lakes in three basins along the present-day Green River in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah. The sediments are deposited in very fine layers, a dark layer during the growing season and a light-hue inorganic layer in the dry season.
The iconic view of Squaretop and Green River Lakes has been on the Wyoming license plate since 2016. Climate [ edit ] According to the Köppen climate classification system, Squaretop Mountain is located in an alpine subarctic climate zone with long, cold, snowy winters, and cool to warm summers. [6]
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.
Fossil Butte National Monument is a United States National Monument managed by the National Park Service, located 15 miles (24 km) west of Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States. It centers on an assemblage of Eocene Epoch (56 to 34 million years ago) animal and plant fossils associated with Fossil Lake —the smallest lake of the three great lakes ...
9,980 cu ft/s (283 m 3 /s) Basin features. Tributaries. • left. Little West Fork Blacks Fork, Hams Fork. • right. Smiths Fork. Blacks Fork (also referred to as Blacks Fork of the Green River) is a 175-mile-long (282 km) [4] tributary of the Green River in Utah and Wyoming in the United States. [1]
White Mountain. / 41.57806°N 109.32000°W / 41.57806; -109.32000. White Mountain is a long mountain located in central Sweetwater County, Wyoming, near the cities of Rock Springs and Green River. The mountain is part of the Green River Formation, and contains communications towers that serve a number of purposes.
69000197. Added to NRHP. 1969-04-16. Fort Bridger was originally a 19th-century fur trading outpost established in 1842, on Blacks Fork of the Green River, in what is now Uinta County, Wyoming, United States. It became a vital resupply point for wagon trains on the Oregon Trail, California Trail, and Mormon Trail.