Explore Veteran, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Veteran, 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 Veteran.
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 | Veteran |
| State | Wyoming (WY) |
| County | Goshen County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 41.964412 |
| Longitude | -104.380512 |
| Population | 21 |
| Density | 6.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 82243 |
| Area Code | 307 |
| County Seat | Torrington |
| School District | Goshen County School District 1 |
Veteran occupies a quiet expanse of high plains where the horizon stretches thin and taut, pulling the pale blue sky down toward the dry, sun-bleached earth. It lies 61.3 miles north-northeast of Cheyenne, WY (from Cheyenne, WY: bearing 22°T), and is situated 12.1 miles southwest of Torrington. The land around Veteran rises in subtle, wind-scoured swells, forming a landscape of muted ochre and dusty sage that feels indifferent to the passage of human time. To the west, the jagged silhouette of Rattlesnake Point interrupts the flat expanse, standing as a distant, serrated sentinel against the fading light of dusk. The air here holds a sharp, clean clarity that seems to sharpen the edges of every fence post and grain elevator, while the nearby Eaton Reservoir offers a singular, reflective stillness in an otherwise arid and expansive geography.
Agriculture defines the pulse of the region, where the labor of the seasons is measured in the growth of crops and the movement of livestock across the vast, open ranges. The history of Veteran is anchored to the resilience of those who carved a life from this demanding soil, far from the lush valleys or mountain heights found elsewhere in the state. Residents often find their way to the modest grounds of Yoder Town Park to gather, or follow the thin, wandering path of Corn Creek as it carves a slow, seasonal trace through the basin of Sheep Wash. Life in Veteran moves with the steady, unadorned pace of a place that values the weight of silence and the integrity of a hard day’s work, leaving little room for artifice in the immense, quiet theater of the plains.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Veteran, Wyoming. Coordinates: 41.964412, -104.380512. 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 Veteran includes the ZIP code (82243), telephone area code (307), county seat of Goshen County (Torrington), and school district assignment (Goshen County School District 1).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |