Buck Creek
Buck Creek is a stream in Park, Wyoming and has an elevation of 4,521 feet. Buck Creek is situated nearby to the hamlet Vocation.Places of Interest
Highlights include Heart Mountain Relocation Center.
Heart Mountain Relocation Center
Protected area
Photo: Jeremykemp, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Heart Mountain War Relocation Center, named after nearby Heart Mountain and located midway between the northwest Wyoming towns of Cody and Powell, was one of ten concentration camps used for the internment of Japanese Americans evicted during World War II from their local communities in the West Coast Exclusion Zone by the executive order of President Franklin Roosevelt.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ralston.
Ralston
Hamlet
Ralston is a census-designated place in Park County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 280 at the 2010 census. Ralston is situated 5 miles northeast of Buck Creek.
Buck Creek
- Type: Stream
- Category: body of water
- Location: Park, Wyoming, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.65829° or 44° 39′ 30″ northLongitude
-108.93041° or 108° 55′ 50″ westElevation
4,521 feet (1,378 metres)Open location code
85PHM359+8RGeoNames ID
5819791
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