1911 Map of Sheridan

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Sheridan serves as the focal point of this northern Wyoming landscape, established at the junction of Goose Creek and Little Goose Creek just before the turn of the century. The town's early expansion is tied closely to the Chicago Burlington and Quincy RR, which cuts a diagonal path through the territory, linking coal-mining settlements like Dietz and small railroad stops like Verona. To the west, the foothills rise toward the Bighorn Mountains and the boundary of the Bighorn National Forest, where the terrain transitions from agricultural river valleys to steep timberland.