Cemeteries in Basin, Wyoming

Private Cemeteries in Basin, Wyoming often have specific restrictions, such as religious affiliation or family connections. Military Cemeteries in Basin, Wyoming are primarily for veterans and individuals who have served in the armed forces, and in some cases, their family members. Public Cemeteries in Basin, Wyoming are open to the general public without any particular restrictions.

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Our database contains records of burials from 2 cemeteries.

The area is a veritable ocean of sagebrush interspersed with unusual rock formations, sand dunes, and saltbush communities. Most of the Wyoming Basins is sagebrush steppe; actually a shrubland mosaic dominated by Wyoming big sagebrush.

The Powder River Basin (PRB) in northeastern Wyoming and southeastern Montana (fig. 1) was the first basin to be assessed under this effort. It contains the largest deposits of low-sulfur subbituminous coal in the world.

The Great Basin is particularly noted for its internal drainage system, in which precipitation falling on the surface leads eventually to closed valleys and does not reach the sea.

The "Great Basin" that Great Basin National Park is named after extends from the Sierra Nevada Range in California to the Wasatch Range in Utah, and from southern Oregon to southern Nevada. This is an area where no water drains to an ocean, but drains inward.

A quirk of the state's geology created this interior basin that was once a massive ancient lake. Therefore, those passing east or west across the south-central part of Wyoming will cross the Continental Divide twice, on each side of this basin.

The Town of Basin was founded in 1896 by Winfield Collins and named for the Bighorn Basin. In 1897, it became the county seat, following a raging fight for that designation between Otto, Basin and Cody. Basin was known as Basin City until it was incorporated in 1902 and City was dropped from the name.

The Great Basin is particularly noted for its internal drainage system, in which precipitation falling on the surface leads eventually to closed valleys and does not reach the sea.

The Town of Basin was founded in 1896 by Winfield Collins and named for the Bighorn Basin. In 1897, it became the county seat, following a raging fight for that designation between Otto, Basin and Cody. Basin was known as Basin City until it was incorporated in 1902 and City was dropped from the name.

Bighorn Basin Geology The Bighorn Basin is an elongate, northwest-trending structural basin in north-central Wyoming. It is approximately 193 km (120 mi) long and up to 145 km (90 mi) wide. Along the axis of the basin, the total thickness of Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic rocks exceeds 7,620 m (25,000 ft).