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    The Buttes is an unincorporated community in Albany County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 31 at the 2000 census, when it was a census-designated...
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    Missouri Buttes or Little Missouri Buttes are located in Crook County in northeast Wyoming on the northwest flank of the Black Hills Uplift. The buttes are...
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    The Oregon Buttes are small buttes, near the Oregon Trail, in what is now the state of Wyoming. They are just past South Pass, and are two flat-topped...
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    Butte (redirect from Buttes)
    small, relatively flat top; buttes are smaller landforms than mesas, plateaus, and tablelands. The word butte comes from the French word butte, meaning...
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    National Park Service. Archived from the original on April 13, 2008. Retrieved June 27, 2008. Oregon Buttes, Wyoming, Elevation: 8558 feet, 2608 meters...
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    Route and Rawhide Buttes and Running Water Stage Stations". National Park Service. Retrieved June 11, 2009. "FRANK LUSK FOUNDED 3 WYOMING TOWNS". Niobrara...
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    Pinnacle Buttes is an 11,516-foot-elevation (3,510-meter) mountain summit located in Fremont County, Wyoming, United States. Pinnacle Buttes is situated...
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    The Church Buttes is an eroded sandstone butte formation in Uinta County, Wyoming. It is notable for its prehistorical archaeological remains as well...
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    County, Wyoming, 44°44′06″N 105°08′37″W / 44.73500°N 105.14361°W / 44.73500; -105.14361 (Duck Creek Breaks), el. 3,917 feet (1,194 m) Edmo Buttes, Fremont...
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  • Rawhide Buttes [el. 5,243 ft (1,598 m)] is a mountain range in Wyoming. According to tradition, Rawhide Buttes was so named on account of a pioneer being...
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    Jelm PhinDeli Red Buttes Sherman The Buttes Tie Siding Toltec Wyocolo Albany Centennial Fox Park Woods Landing-Jelm While Wyoming as a whole tends to...
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    The Rawhide Buttes Stage Station, the Running Water Stage Station and the Cheyenne–Black Hills Stage Route comprise a historic district that commemorates...
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    listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Wyoming. There are more than 500 listed sites in Wyoming. Each of the 23 counties in Wyoming has at...
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    county in the northeastern corner of the U.S. state of Wyoming. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 7,181, making it the third-least...
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    breaks, the pine hills of southern Montana, and the buttes and grasslands that were formerly the home of vast migratory herds of American bison. The Tongue...
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  • Arizona Rawhide Buttes, Wyoming Rawhide Creek, Nebraska Rawhide Mine, a coal mine in Wyoming Rawhide (computing), a development version of the Fedora computer...
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    Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    into the Yellowstone region of northwestern Wyoming, given directions by President Ulysses S. Grant's Secretary of Interior Columbus Delano. The survey...
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    The Wyoming toad (Anaxyrus baxteri), also known commonly as Baxter's toad, is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. The Wyoming toad is an extremely...
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    Shirley Basin Pumpkin Buttes Smith Ranch US Geological Survey geologist David Love discovered uranium in 1951 near Pumpkin Buttes, about 25 miles northeast...
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    "Crocodylus" affinis (category Articles with quotation marks in the title)
    "Crocodylus" affinis is a skull found at Grizzly Buttes, Wyoming, measuring 13 inches in length on the upper surface. Recent phylogenetic studies of crocodyloids...
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    States National Monument managed by the National Park Service, located 15 miles (24 km) west of Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States. It centers on an assemblage...
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    U.S. Route 20 in Nebraska (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    (I-129). The 197 miles (317 km) between the Wyoming border and Valentine is designated as the Bridges to Buttes Byway, one of nine scenic byways in the state...
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    Badlands (redirect from The Badlands)
    of a substantial regolith, and high drainage density. Ravines, gullies, buttes, hoodoos and other such geologic forms are common in badlands. Badlands...
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    in and the county seat of Natrona County, Wyoming, United States. Casper is the second-most populous city in the state after Cheyenne, with the population...
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  • Red Buttes Observatory (RBO) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by University of Wyoming. It is located 15 kilometers (9 mi) south of Laramie...
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    returned to Wyoming in 1906, where they worked a ranch near Pumpkin Buttes, Wyoming. Dent's early years were spent in the lonely hills of Wyoming. He attended...
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    Pawnee National Grassland (category Grasslands of the North American Great Plains)
    Nesting birds include the golden eagle and prairie falcons. Short grass prairies cover the open flatlands at the below the buttes and the escarpments. They...
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    The Red Desert is a high-altitude desert and sagebrush steppe located in the south-central portion of the U.S. state of Wyoming, comprising approximately...
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    igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Ranger District of the Black Hills, near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche...
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    Ziebach County is part of the Great Plains and is characterized by rolling grasslands and numerous buttes. The buttes form the highest points of elevation...
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