Owl Creek Wyoming Map

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.

About This Owl Creek Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Owl Creek, Wyoming. Coordinates: 43.781067, -108.567057. 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 Owl Creek includes the ZIP code (82443), telephone area code (307), county seat of Hot Springs County (Thermopolis), and school district assignment (Hot Springs 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.