Powder Horn is a

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and

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, such ...

(CDP) in Sheridan County,

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, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 682. The community is in south-central Sheridan County, bordered to the southwest by Big Horn and south of

Sheridan Sheridan may refer to: People Surname *Sheridan (surname) *Philip Sheridan (1831–1888), U.S. Army general after whom the Sheridan tank is named *Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816), Irish playwright (''The Rivals''), poet and politician ...

, the

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. The community is in the valley of

Little Goose Creek Little Goose Creek is a creek originating on the east slope of the Big Horn Mountains in north-central Wyoming. Route After dropping over and entering a steep canyon, the creek flows out of the Big Horn Mountains and into the Powder River Basin ...

, which flows north to join Big Goose Creek in Sheridan, forming Goose Creek, which in turn is a north-flowing tributary of the Tongue River, leading to the

Yellowstone River The Yellowstone River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately long, in the Western United States. Considered the principal tributary of upper Missouri, via its own tributaries it drains an area with headwaters across the mountains an ...

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Populated places in Sheridan County, Wyoming Census-designated places in Sheridan County, Wyoming Census-designated places in Wyoming {{Wyoming-geo-stub