Owl Creek, Wyoming

About Owl Creek

Owl Creek is a small unincorporated community in northern Wyoming.

Owl Creek holds the status of a census-designated place — a real, named community that residents call home, governed at the county level. The community covers 6.53 square miles.

📰 Owl Creek News Today

• Wyoming communities want time to consider embracing nuclear energy, as feds rush to expand industry WyoFile · Apr 16
• Don Day's Wyoming Weather Forecast: Saturday, April 4, 2026 Cowboy State Daily · Apr 3
• Owl Creek drainage of Bighorn Sheep Hunt Area 5 opening August 1 Wyoming Game and Fish (.gov) · Jul 28
• 7 Coziest Mountain Towns In Wyoming WorldAtlas · Feb 20
• WGFD to open bighorn sheep hunting to the Owl Creek Portion of Area 5 early GoHunt · Jul 29

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What Makes Owl Creek Unique

• The only place in America named Owl Creek — a truly one-of-a-kind name among 32,000+ US communities.
• An unincorporated community — no city hall of its own, which often means lower local taxes and county-managed services.
• Positioned in northern Wyoming, convenient to the region's corridors and crossings.

Why People Love It Here

• Quiet streets and a slower rhythm — the kind of place people move to on purpose.
• Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
• Well connected: 3+ neighboring communities within 20 miles.

🎡 Fun Things to Do

• Legend Rock Petroglyph Site · Attraction

Attractions mapped by the OpenStreetMap community.

⚡ Quick Facts

🗺️ Map of Owl Creek

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