Moorcroft Wyoming Map

About Moorcroft, Wyoming

Moorcroft is a locality in Crook County, Wyoming, United States. It is a small community with a population of 946. The population density is 289.2 people per km². Moorcroft is located at 44.2633°N, 104.9503°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. Moorcroft is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 82721.

Moorcroft emerges from the vast Wyoming plains as a quiet intersection of high-plains earth and expansive, pale-blue sky. It lies 27.4 miles east of Gillette, WY (from Gillette, WY: bearing 94°T), and is situated 56.1 miles west-southwest of Spearfish. Rush Creek cuts a path through the terrain near the settlement, its modest flow providing a persistent, low-frequency rhythm to the landscape that remains indifferent to the changing seasons. The horizon is dominated by the dry, textured expanse of the prairie, where the light at dusk turns the grasses a bruised, metallic gold, casting long shadows that stretch toward the distant, faint silhouettes of the Rocky Mountains. Within the immediate perimeter, Noonan Park offers a small, localized refuge of greenery, a sharp contrast to the rugged, sun-bleached hills that define the surrounding topography.

Moorcroft bears the imprint of a history forged in the necessity of the frontier, where the economy has long been tethered to the pulse of energy extraction and the persistent demands of agricultural life. The town functions as a steady point of gravity for those who work the land or the depths beneath it, maintaining a pace that favors the deliberate over the frantic. Four miles distant, the Big Draw basin and the waters of Cox Reservoir serve as quiet geographic markers, reminding those who live here of the scarcity and value of water in this arid climate. Life in Moorcroft unfolds with a pragmatic dignity, marked by the steady hum of commerce and the enduring character of a place that remains stubbornly, authentically itself.

About This Moorcroft Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Moorcroft, Wyoming. Coordinates: 44.263315, -104.950254. 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 Moorcroft includes the ZIP code (82721), telephone area code (307), county seat of Crook County (Sundance), and school district assignment (Crook County School District 1).

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.