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Y-O Ranch Wyoming Map

Explore Y-O Ranch, 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 Y-O Ranch, Wyoming

How to Use This Y-O Ranch, Wyoming Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Y-O Ranch, 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 Y-O Ranch.

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	Y-O Ranch
State	Wyoming (WY)
County	Platte County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Mountain Time (America/Denver)

Latitude	42.035162
Longitude	-104.922969
Population	172
Density	27.6 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	82201
Area Code	307
County Seat	Wheatland
School District	Platte County School District 1

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About Y-O Ranch, Wyoming

Y-O Ranch is a locality in Platte County, Wyoming, United States. It is a small community with a population of 172. The population density is 27.6 people per km². Y-O Ranch is located at 42.0352°N, 104.9230°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 82201.

Y-O Ranch occupies a vast, sun-bleached expanse where the horizon stretches thin and taut against a sky of unrelenting blue. It lies 60.0 miles northeast of Laramie, WY (from Laramie, WY: bearing 34°T), and is situated 1.8 miles south-southeast of Wheatland. Rock Creek carves a shallow, rhythmic path through the dry earth just a mile from the property, its presence marked by the silvered skeletons of cottonwoods that lean into the wind. To the west, the Cooney Hills rise in hazy, muted silhouettes, providing a jagged boundary that keeps the high-plains weather in constant, restless motion. The light here has a peculiar, crystalline quality, sharpening the edges of the sagebrush and casting long, indigo shadows that seem to swallow the distances between the fence lines and the distant, dry reaches of Ayers Draw.

Economic life at Y-O Ranch remains tethered to the slow, deliberate cycles of the land, where the labor of raising livestock dictates the rhythm of the seasons. While the nearby Wheatland Golf Club (Public) offers a manicured contrast to the wilder brush, the character of the property is defined by a legacy of hard-won resilience and the quiet solitude of the Wyoming interior. Visitors might catch a glimpse of the distant, shimmering surface of Roath Reservoir, a static mirror reflecting the changing clouds as the afternoon heat begins to dissipate into the cool, thin air of evening. Life here persists in the quiet intervals between chores, a testament to the endurance of those who have long worked this soil under the vast, indifferent expanse of the western heavens.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Wheatland Golf Club (Public) (Local Recreation) — 1.7 mi, 292° W
Town of Wheatland - Lewis Park (Local Park) — 1.7 mi, 297° NW
Town of Wheatland Park (Local Park) — 2.7 mi, 315° NW
Cottonwood Draw Wildlife Habitat Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 10.8 mi, 062° NE
Medicine Bow National Forest (National Forest) — 17.5 mi, 280° W · 1.1M acres
Oregon Trail Ruts (State Recreation Area) — 17.6 mi, 030° NE
Register Cliff (Monument) — 18.2 mi, 036° NE
Guernsey Reservoir State Park (State Park) — 18.5 mi, 023° NE
Laramie Peak Wildlife Habitat Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 19.9 mi, 262° W
Cheyenne Deadwood Trail Historic Marker (Monument) — 20.0 mi, 165° S
Grattan Massacre Historical Monument (Monument) — 27.4 mi, 076° E
Glendo Reservoir State Park (State Park) — 29.6 mi, 357° N
Hell Gap Archaeological Site (Historic Ruins) — 29.7 mi, 029° NE
North Platte National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 44.8 mi, 094° E · 5,832 acres
Stagecoach Museum (Museum) — 55.6 mi, 025° NE
Big Boot (Public Artwork) — 59.2 mi, 175° S
UW Art Museum (Gallery) — 59.9 mi, 214° SW
Curt Gowdy Amphitheater (Theatre) — 60.5 mi, 197° S
Gryphon Theatre (Theatre) — 60.7 mi, 215° SW
Frontier Days Arena (Stadium) — 61.0 mi, 176° S
Derby Lanes (Theme Park) — 61.7 mi, 174° S
Cowgirls of the West Museum (Museum) — 62.5 mi, 175° S
Cheyenne Children's Museum (Museum) — 62.7 mi, 175° S
Scotts Bluff National Monument (National Monument) — 62.8 mi, 102° E · 3,162 acres
Split Daemonilix (Attraction) — 64.3 mi, 065° NE
Daemonilix (Attraction) — 64.3 mi, 064° NE
North Overlook (Viewpoint) — 64.3 mi, 102° E
Corn Maze at Legacy of the Plains (Attraction) — 65.1 mi, 103° E
Western Nebraska Mexican American Historical Museum (Museum) — 65.8 mi, 099° E
Roosevelt National Forest (National Forest) — 77.2 mi, 202° S · 814k acres

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