Burns Wyoming Map

About Burns, Wyoming

Burns is a locality in Laramie County, Wyoming, United States. It is a small community with a population of 356. The population density is 45.0 people per km². Burns is located at 41.1928°N, 104.3591°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. Burns is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 82053.

Burns occupies a wide, high-altitude expanse where the horizon stretches flat and uncompromising against a pale, thin sky. It lies 24.3 miles east of Cheyenne, WY (from Cheyenne, WY: bearing 81°T), and is situated 22.5 miles east of Ranchettes. The earth here is a muted palette of sage and tawny grasses, broken only by the subtle depression of Antelope Draw to the west and the faint, distant silhouette of Base Line Ridge rising in the far distance. North Fork Muddy Creek traces a narrow, intermittent path through the soil just a mile away, its presence marked by a slight deepening of color in the vegetation. Near Thomas Reservoir Number 1, the water reflects the shifting clouds with a clarity that renders the surrounding prairie even more vast, emphasizing the quiet, steady weight of the wind that constantly moves across the plains.

Agriculture provides the primary pulse of life in Burns, where the economy remains tied to the cycles of the earth and the cultivation of hardy crops. The history of the locality is written in the resilience of those who settled this arid ground, building a life out of the dust and the open, exposed space. While Greenway offers a distant reach of protected land for the local traveler, the daily reality of the inhabitants is found in the rhythm of the harvest and the maintenance of the fence lines that partition the expansive range. Life in Burns moves with a deliberate, measured pace, defined by the stark clarity of the light at dawn and the long, quiet shadows that fall across the plains as the sun slips behind the distant, jagged edges of the western landscape.

About This Burns Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Burns, Wyoming. Coordinates: 41.192759, -104.359124. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Burns includes the ZIP code (82053), telephone area code (307), county seat of Laramie County (Cheyenne), and school district assignment (Laramie County School District 2).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.