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Owl Creek Wyoming Map

Explore Owl Creek, Wyoming, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Owl Creek, Wyoming

How to Use This Owl Creek, Wyoming Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Owl Creek, Wyoming. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Wyoming or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Owl Creek.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Owl Creek
State	Wyoming (WY)
County	Hot Springs County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Mountain Time (America/Denver)

Latitude	43.781067
Longitude	-108.567057
Population	4
Density	0.2 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	82443
Area Code	307
County Seat	Thermopolis
School District	Hot Springs County School District 1

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About Owl Creek, Wyoming

Owl Creek is a locality in Hot Springs County, Wyoming, United States. It is a small community with a population of 4. The population density is 0.2 people per km². Owl Creek is located at 43.7811°N, 108.5671°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 82443.

Owl Creek stretches across a high, arid expanse where the earth holds the pale, muted colors of sagebrush and exposed limestone. It lies 53.1 miles north of Riverton, WY (from Riverton, WY: bearing 350°T), and is situated 34.5 miles west-southwest of Worland. The horizon remains vast and largely unpeopled, though on the clearest mornings, the distant, jagged silhouettes of the Rocky Mountains provide a sharp, blue-shadowed boundary to the west. Closer to the ground, the landscape is defined by the deep, irregular gashes of Duncan Draw, which slice through the plains like ancient, dry veins, and the intermittent flow of Cottonwood Creek, which sustains thin ribbons of green in an otherwise parched geography. The light here acts with a peculiar, heavy clarity, sharpening the edges of every rock and blade of grass until the landscape feels less like a place of human settlement and more like a primary, unyielding geology.

People have long marked their presence upon these plains, leaving behind the enduring, etched figures at Legend Rock that speak to a history far older than the modern fences and irrigation pivots. The economy of Owl Creek remains anchored to the rhythms of the land, shifting with the seasons of grazing and the extraction of mineral wealth that lies beneath the dusty soil. Three miles away, the still surface of Wales Reservoir offers a rare stillness, a gray mirror that captures the immense, shifting clouds of the high country. Life in Owl Creek moves with the deliberate pace of those who understand the limits of their environment, where the wind serves as the primary architect of the day, and the silence of the basin is a constant, companionable weight against the sky.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Legend Rock (State Park) — 1.8 mi, 308° NW
Upper Owl Creek Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 17.9 mi, 242° SW
Cedar Mountain Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 19.0 mi, 080° E · 54k acres
Hot Springs State Park (State Park) — 19.7 mi, 115° SE
Bow and Arrow (Public Artwork) — 19.9 mi, 118° SE
World's Largest Mineral Hot Spring (Viewpoint) — 20.3 mi, 115° SE
Shoshone National Forest (National Forest) — 21.2 mi, 269° W · 2.4M acres
Bobcat Draw Badlands Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 22.9 mi, 007° N · 17k acres
Washakie Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 25.0 mi, 278° W · 694k acres
Sunshine Wildlife Habitat Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 27.6 mi, 306° NW
Sand Mesa Wildlife Habitat Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 29.0 mi, 183° S
Loch-Katrine Bird Reservation (Nature Reserve) — 49.5 mi, 341° N
National Museum of Military Vehicles (Museum) — 51.1 mi, 246° SW
Fitzpatrick Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 52.8 mi, 238° SW · 199k acres
Big Horn Basin Geoscience Center (Museum) — 55.1 mi, 027° NE
Grand Theater (Theatre) — 55.1 mi, 027° NE
Caboose (Attraction) — 55.2 mi, 027° NE
Vietnam Memorial (Monument) — 55.7 mi, 335° NW
Bighorn National Forest (National Forest) — 55.7 mi, 027° NE · 1.1M acres
Wild Sheep Exhibit (Attraction) — 57.0 mi, 334° NW
Draper Natural History Museum (Museum) — 57.2 mi, 334° NW
Buffalo Bill Museum (Museum) — 57.2 mi, 334° NW
Plains Indian Museum (Museum) — 57.2 mi, 334° NW
Old Trail Town (Attraction) — 57.3 mi, 333° NW
Horner Site (Historic Ruins) — 57.6 mi, 339° N
Wind river Wild Horses Sancuary (Attraction) — 59.6 mi, 191° S
Heart Mountain Relocation Center Memorial (Monument) — 64.3 mi, 343° N
Upper Brooks Lake Trailhead (Monument) — 71.8 mi, 269° W
Yellowstone National Park (National Park) — 75.3 mi, 289° W · 2.2M acres

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