Casper, Wyoming Casper, Wyoming City of Casper Overview of downtown Casper, looking south toward Casper Mountain, with North Platte River in foreground.
Overview of downtown Casper, looking south toward Casper Mountain, with North Platte River in foreground.
Casper, Wyoming is positioned in the US Casper, Wyoming - Casper, Wyoming State Wyoming Casper (Lakota: Pahasasa Ot uewahe; "Red Hill City") is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Natrona County, Wyoming, United States. Casper is the second-largest town/city in Wyoming, as stated to the 2010 census, with a populace of 55,316.
Casper is nicknamed "The Oil City" and has a long history of petroleum boomtown and cowboy culture, dating back to the evolution of the close-by Salt Creek Oil Field.
In 2010, Casper was titled the highest-ranked family-friendly small town/city in the West, and ranked eighth overall in the country in Forbes magazine's list of "the best small metros/cities to raise a family". Casper is positioned in east-central Wyoming at the foot of Casper Mountain, the north end of the Laramie Mountain Range, along the North Platte River.
The town/city was established east of the former site of Fort Caspar, which was assembled amid the mid-19th century mass migration of territory seekers along the Oregon, California and Mormon trails. The region was the locale of a several ferries that offered passage athwart the North Platte River in the early 1840s.
The town of Casper itself was established well after the fort had been closed.
The town/city was established by developers as an anticipated stopping point amid the expansion of the Wyoming Central Railway; it was an early commercial rival to Bessemer and Douglas, Wyoming.
The lack of a railhead doomed Bessemer in favor of Casper.
The existence of a railhead made Casper the starting off point for the "invaders" in the Johnson County War.
The special chartered train carrying the men up from Texas stopped at Casper.
The reason why the town is titled Casper, freshwater Caspar honoring the memory of Fort Caspar and Lt.
Interstate 25, which approaches Casper from the north and east, is the chief avenue of transit to and from the city.
The suburbs immediately contiguous to Casper are Mills, Evansville, and Bar Nunn.
The waterfall at Casper's Rotary Park, at the base of Casper Mountain.
Casper is positioned at 42 50 5 N 106 19 30 W (42.834665, 106.325062). It sits at an average altitude of about 5,200 feet (1,600 m) (just slightly lower than Denver).
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 27.24 square miles (70.55 km2), of which, 26.90 square miles (69.67 km2) is territory and 0.34 square miles (0.88 km2) is water. Casper, as with most of the rest of Wyoming, has a semi-arid climate (Koppen climate classification BSk), with long, cold, but dry winters, hot but generally dry summers, mild springs, and short and crisp autumns.
Climate data for Casper, Wyoming (1981 2010 normals) In the city, the populace was spread out with 25.9% under the age of 18, 10.5% from 18 to 24, 27.7% from 25 to 44, 22.3% from 45 to 64, and 13.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
Although mostly small by nationwide standards, Casper is a county-wide center of banking and commerce.
Sinclair's Casper refinery in close-by Evansville.
Since the discernment of crude petroleum in the region amid the 1890s, Casper became the county-wide petroleum trade center.
Oil was first identified in the famous Salt Creek Oil Field in 1889, roughly 40 miles (64 km) north of Casper; the first refinery in Casper was assembled in 1895.
Development of Wyoming coal and uranium fields in recent decades has helped Casper continue its part as a center in the energy industry.
Casper is home to Casper College, a improve college that offers bachelor's degrees in sixteen areas of study from the University of Wyoming through their UW/CC Center. Public education in the town/city of Casper is provided by Natrona County School District #1.
The precinct operates sixteen elementary schools, five middle schools, and three high schools in Casper.
The high schools include Kelly Walsh, Natrona County, and Roosevelt High Schools, There is also a program being added to Natrona County School District called CAPS, it will serve as more space and classrooms for juniors and seniors at any of the 3 Highschools.
Casper is served by two print newspapers, the Casper Star-Tribune, a everyday, and the Casper Journal, presented weekly.
Casper is also home to Wyo - File, an online printed announcement focusing on state issues.
Radio stations in the Casper, Wyoming region UFC 6 took place at the Casper Events Center in 1995 Casper hosted the AIFA Championship Bowl III at the Casper Events Center on July 26, 2009. Casper has hosted the College National Finals Rodeo since 2001.
Sports squads based in Casper include: Casper Cannibal RFC, an amateur rugby football team in the Eastern Rockies Rugby Football Union.
Casper Cutthroats, a for-profit team that plays in the Mountain Collegiate Baseball League. Casper Coyotes, a Junior A hockey team in the Western States Hockey League (WSHL), that plays out of the Casper Ice Arena. Casper is home to a number of exhibitions and historical sites: Tate Geological Museum at Casper College The Casper Troopers, part of Drum Corps International.
Casper has three locations offering theatre: The Gertrude Krampert Theatre at Casper College, Stage III Community Theatre, and the Casper Events Center where an annual series of touring Broadway shows, Broadway in Casper, can be seen.
Casper is home to the Troopers, a drum and bugle corps in Drum Corps International, and the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra. During the summer months, Casper's City Band performs no-charge concerts Thursday evenings at Washington Park, weather permitting. US 20 East-West route through Casper that runs concurrent with I-25 through Casper.
At exit 189 the highway continues west out of Casper, and no longer runs concurrent with the interstate.
20-26 west of Casper in Mills.
US 26 East-West route through Casper that runs concurrent with I-25 through Casper.
At exit 189 the highway continues west out of Casper, and no longer runs concurrent with the interstate.
20-26 west of Casper in Mills.
US 87 North-South through Casper that runs concurrent with I-25 through Casper.
Wyoming State Highways: Poplar St., CY Avenue) East-West route from I-25/US 87 (Exit 188 - B) west out of Casper towards Alcova.
WYO 251 (Wolcott St., Casper Mountain Rd.) North-South route that continues south out of Casper and up Casper Mountain, eventually ending at WYO 487.
Poplar St.) North-South route from the intersection of Poplar Street and CY avenue to Casper Mountain Road.
WYO 258 (Wyoming Blvd.) East-West loop route from I-25/US 87 to US 20-26 west of Casper in Mills; the majority of the highway runs along the southern borders of Casper.
The town/city has scheduled air service at Casper/Natrona County International Airport, a former army air base assembled amid World War II.
The current airport, having been assembled for bombers, has large runways and replaced a before county-wide airport north of Casper which later became Bar Nunn.
Public transit in the Casper region is provided by the Casper Area Transportation Coalition. They offer fixed route service called The Bus and an on request service called CATC.
House of Representatives; interval up and graduated from high school in Casper.
Bush, former CEO of Halliburton Company; Cheney interval up in Casper, having moved there from his place of birth in Nebraska State Department, daughter of Dick Cheney; visited school in Casper and was recently voted for to the U.S.
Morton (1924 2002), former Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives; Casper oilman and engineer Patrick Joseph Sullivan, mayor of Casper, Wyoming from 1897 to 1898 and member of United States Senate from Wyoming from 1929 to 1930 United States Enumeration Bureau.
Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Historical Decennial Enumeration Population for Wyoming Counties, Cities, and Towns".
Wyoming Department of State / U.S.
"Casper Events Center".
City of Casper.
"Wyoming Cavalry News & Events".
City of Casper.
"Casper College".
Casper College.
"Werner Wildlife Museum Review: Casper Best Attractions and Activities Reviews by 10 - Best".
Casper Area Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Casper Star-Tribune.
"CATC Casper Area Transportation Coalition".
Casper Area Transportation Coalition, Inc.
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