Wind River (Wyoming)

	Wind River (Wyoming) The Wind River is the name applied to the upper reaches of the Bighorn River in Wyoming in the United States. The Wind River is long. The two rivers are sometimes referred to as the Wind/Bighorn. Course Its headwaters are at Wind River Lake in the Rocky Mountains, near the summit of Togwotee Pass (pronounced TOH-guh-tee) and gathers water from several forks along the northeast side of the Wind River Range in west central Wyoming. It flows southeastward, across the Wind River Basin and the Wind River Indian Reservation and joins the Little Wind River near Riverton. Up stream from this confluence, it is known locally as the Big Wind River. It flows northward, through a gap in the Owl Creek Mountains, where the name of the river becomes the Bighorn River. In the Owl Creek Mountains, it is dammed to form Boysen Reservoir. The Wind River officially becomes the Bighorn River at the Wedding of the Waters, on the north side of the Wind River Canyon. See also * List of rivers of W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
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picture info	Togwotee Pass Togwotee Pass (pronounced TOH-guh-tee) is a high mountain pass in the western United States, at an elevation of above sea level. On the Continental Divide in the Absaroka Mountains of northwestern Wyoming in Teton County, it is between Dubois and Moran Junction in the Jackson Hole valley. U.S. Highways 287 and 26 traverse the pass, which is approximately east of Moran Junction. The pass provides the most direct access to Grand Teton National Park from eastern Wyoming. Located between Two Ocean Mountain and Breccia Peak, sweeping vistas of the Teton Range are visible from the western slopes of the pass. A ski run (mainly a traverse) at the Jackson Hole ski resort is also named Togwotee Pass Located in the Bridger-Teton National Forest and adjacent to Shoshone National Forest, the pass receives heavy winter snowfall and is a top destination for snowmobiling and cross-country skiing. Annual snowfall at the pass often exceeds (reports of over of snow are also k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Tributaries Of The Yellowstone River A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drainage basin of its surface water and groundwater, leading the water out into an ocean. The Irtysh is a chief tributary of the Ob river and is also the longest tributary river in the world with a length of . The Madeira River is the largest tributary river by volume in the world with an average discharge of . A confluence, where two or more bodies of water meet, usually refers to the joining of tributaries. The opposite to a tributary is a distributary, a river or stream that branches off from and flows away from the main stream."opposite to a tributary" PhysicalGeography.net, Michael Pidwirny & Scott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Rivers Of Wyoming The following is a list of rivers in Wyoming, United States. East of the continental divide Missouri River watershed * Gallatin River * Madison River Firehole River Gibbon River * Yellowstone River Gardner River Lamar River * Slough Creek Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River Wind River/Bighorn River * Little Bighorn River * Little Wind River North Fork Popo Agie River Middle Fork Popo Agie River Little Popo Agie River * Roaring Fork Creek Shoshone River Greybull River Shoshone River Gooseberry Creek (Wind River/Bighorn River) * Owl Creek * Muddy Creek Nowood River *Tensleep Creek Paint Rock Creek Tongue River * Big Goose Creek (near Sheridan) Little Goose Creek (near Sheridan) * Little Tongue River (Dayton) Powder River * Clear Creek **** Rock Creek * Little Missouri River * Cheyenne River ** Belle Fourche River * Niobrara River * North Platte River Encampment River Medicine Bow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	List Of Tributaries Of The Missouri River Tributaries of the Missouri River, a major river in the central United States, are listed in upstream order. These lists are arranged into river sections between cities or mouths of major tributaries for ease of navigation. Two large tributaries (the Platte and Yellowstone) have their own separate lists because they would be too lengthy to include in part of another section. Data is derived from U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) topographical maps and the USGS National Map. Table of primary tributaries Mouth to Kansas City Gasconade River Big Piney River Spring Creek Roubidoux Creek Osage Fork Gasconade River Beaver Creek Auxvasse Creek Osage River Maries River Niangua River *Little Niangua River * Greasy Creek Pomme de Terre River * Little Pomme de Terre River South Grand River Tebo Creek Big Creek Weaubleau Creek Sac River Little Sac River Turnback Creek Clear Creek Little Osage River Marmaton River Marais des Cygnes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	List Of Rivers Of Wyoming The following is a list of rivers in Wyoming, United States. East of the continental divide Missouri River watershed * Gallatin River * Madison River Firehole River Gibbon River * Yellowstone River Gardner River Lamar River * Slough Creek Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River Wind River/Bighorn River * Little Bighorn River * Little Wind River North Fork Popo Agie River Middle Fork Popo Agie River Little Popo Agie River * Roaring Fork Creek Shoshone River Greybull River Shoshone River Gooseberry Creek (Wind River/Bighorn River) * Owl Creek * Muddy Creek Nowood River *Tensleep Creek Paint Rock Creek Tongue River * Big Goose Creek (near Sheridan) Little Goose Creek (near Sheridan) * Little Tongue River (Dayton) Powder River * Clear Creek **** Rock Creek * Little Missouri River * Cheyenne River ** Belle Fourche River * Niobrara River * North Platte River Encampment River Medicine Bow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Wedding Of The Waters, Wyoming Thermopolis is the county seat and largest town in Hot Springs County, Wyoming, United States. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, the town population was 2,725. Thermopolis is Greek for "hot city." It is home to numerous natural hot springs, in which mineral-laden waters are heated by geothermal processes. The town is named for the hot springs located there. The town claims the world's largest mineral hot spring, appropriately named "The Big Spring", as part of Hot Springs State Park. The springs are open to the public for free as part of an 1896 treaty signed with the Shoshone and Arapaho Indian tribes. Dinosaur fossils were found on the Warm Springs Ranch in 1993, and the Wyoming Dinosaur Center was founded soon after. Geography Thermopolis is located near the northern end of the Wind River Canyon and Wedding of the Waters, where the north-flowing Wind River becomes the Bighorn River. It is an unusual instance of a river changing names at a point other than a confluence of two stre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Boysen Reservoir Boysen Reservoir is a reservoir formed by Boysen Dam, an earth-fill dam on the Wind River (Wyoming), Wind River in the central part of the U.S. state of Wyoming. It is near the town of Shoshoni, Wyoming, Shoshoni in Fremont County, Wyoming, Fremont County. The dam was constructed between 1947 and 1952 at the mouth of Wind River Canyon, just upstream from a previous dam that had been built by Asmus Boysen in 1908 on land he had leased from the Shoshone and Arapaho tribes. The dam and much of the reservoir are physically located on the Wind River Indian Reservation. Boysen Dam Railroad Tunnel As a result of construction of the dam a major railroad track that connected Billings, Montana with Casper, Wyoming was flooded. A new track was laid, starting near the new dam where a 1 mile tunnel carried the tracks under the dam and around the edges of the reservoir. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Owl Creek Mountains The Owl Creek Mountains are a subrange of the Rocky Mountains in central Wyoming in the United States, running east to west to form a bridge between the Absaroka Range to the northwest and the Bridger Mountains to the east. The range forms the boundary between the Bighorn Basin to the north and the Shoshone Basin to the south. The Wind River passes through the gap between the range and the Bridger Mountains to the east, and becomes the Bighorn River on the north side of the mountains. The high point of the range is . The range is entirely within the Wind River Indian Reservation. See also * List of mountain ranges in Wyoming According to the United States Board on Geographic Names, there are at least 109 named mountain ranges and sub-ranges in Wyoming. Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the Western United States. Wyoming is the 10th most extensive, but ... Notes Mountain ranges of Wyoming Landforms of Hot Springs County, Wyoming Wind River Indian Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Wind River Indian Reservation The Wind River Indian Reservation, in the west-central portion of the U.S. state of Wyoming, is shared by two Native American tribes, the Eastern Shoshone ( shh, Gweechoon Deka, ''meaning: "buffalo eaters"'') and the Northern Arapaho ( arp, hoteiniiciihehe'). Roughly east to west by north to south, the Indian reservation is located in the Wind River Basin, and includes portions of the Wind River Range, Owl Creek Mountains, and Absaroka Range. The Wind River Indian Reservation is the seventh-largest American Indian reservation in the United States by area and the fifth-largest by population. The land area is approximately , and the total area (land and water) is . The reservation constitutes just over one-third of Fremont County and over one-fifth of Hot Springs County. The 2000 census reported the population of Fremont County as 40,237. According to the 2010 census, only 26,490 people now live on the reservation, with about 15,000 of the residents being non-Indians on ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Wind River Basin The Wind River Basin or Shoshone Basin is a semi-arid intermontane foreland basin in central Wyoming, United States. It is bounded by Laramide uplifts on all sides. On the west is the Wind River Range and on the North are the Absaroka Range and the Owl Creek Mountains. The Casper Arch separates the Wind River from the Powder River Basin to the east and the Sweetwater Uplift ( Granite Range) lies to the south. The basin contains a sequence of 10,000–12,000 feet (3000–3700 meters) of predominantly marine sediments deposited during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic Eras. During the Laramide over 18,000 feet (5500 meters) of Eocene lacustrine and fluvial sediments were deposited within the basin. Following the Eocene an additional 3,000 feet (900 meters) of sediments were deposited before, and as the basin was uplifted in the late Tertiary. The geological formations within the basin are significant producers of petroleum and natural gas. The basin contains over 60 oil and gas fields ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Wind River 07-05-~1 (2) Wind is the natural movement of air or other gases relative to a planet's surface. Winds occur on a range of scales, from thunderstorm flows lasting tens of minutes, to local breezes generated by heating of land surfaces and lasting a few hours, to global winds resulting from the difference in absorption of solar energy between the climate zones on Earth. The two main causes of large-scale atmospheric circulation are the differential heating between the equator and the poles, and the rotation of the planet (Coriolis effect). Within the tropics and subtropics, thermal low circulations over terrain and high plateaus can drive monsoon circulations. In coastal areas the sea breeze/land breeze cycle can define local winds; in areas that have variable terrain, mountain and valley breezes can prevail. Winds are commonly classified by their spatial scale, their speed and direction, the forces that cause them, the regions in which they occur, and their effect. Winds have various aspe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]