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- Great_Divide_Basin abstract "The Great Divide Basin or Great Divide Closed Basin is an area of land in Wyoming's Red Desert (United States) where none of the water falling as rain to the ground drains into any ocean, directly or indirectly. It is therefore considered an endorheic basin, and it adjoins the Continental Divide in southern Wyoming. To the west of the basin is the Green River watershed, draining to the Gulf of California/Pacific Ocean; to the east is the North Platte watershed, draining to the Gulf of Mexico/Atlantic Ocean. The basin is very roughly rectangular in shape; the northwest corner is in the Wind River Range near South Pass, about 40 miles southwest of Lander, and the southeast corner is in the Sierra Madre Range near Bridger Pass, about 20 miles southwest of Rawlins.Although the Great Divide Basin provides a relatively low and easy crossing of the Continental Divide, its aridity and endorheic nature were an obstacle to pioneers during the westward expansion of the United States, and was known as the Saline Plain around the 1870s. Consequently, the Oregon Trail detoured north over South Pass, and the Overland Trail detoured south over Bridger Pass. By contrast, during the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, the Union Pacific was laid directly across the southern part of the basin. (The original railroad map labelled one point along this route as Bridgers Pass, giving rise to the still-common misconception that the railroad followed the Overland Trail.) Roughly the same route across the basin was later taken by the transcontinental highways traversing the region, namely the Lincoln Highway, U.S. 30, and Interstate 80. The basin is also traversed in a north-south direction by U.S. 287 and Wyoming 789. Even today the basin is very sparsely populated, the only incorporated town being Wamsutter, with a population of 451 at the 2010 census.A westward traveler on Interstate 80 crosses from the Gulf of Mexico drainage to the Great Divide Basin at about 41.788°N 107.376°W / 41.788; -107.376, roughly 7 miles west of Rawlins. A highway sign marks this as a crossing of the Continental Divide, although that is a matter of interpretation. At about 41.716°N 107.782°W / 41.716; -107.782 is the exit for Continental Divide Road, the highest point on I-80 within the Great Divide Basin, at an elevation of 7,130 ft (2,170 m). While this is no longer recognized as a crossing of the Divide, it was evidently considered to be just that during the days of the Lincoln Highway and U.S. 30, and a monument to Henry B. Joy, the first president of the Lincoln Highway Association, was placed just south of this point along the old highway. (It was relocated to Sherman Summit in 2001 to protect it from increasing vandalism.) Further west, I-80 crosses to the Colorado River drainage at about 41.631°N 108.311°W / 41.631; -108.311. This is now recognized as the true location of the Continental Divide, and at one time yet another highway sign could be found at this location. (The placement of the Divide along this ridge signifies that the otherwise endorheic basin would drain to the east if it were to overflow.) Having finally left the Great Divide Basin behind, I-80 continues west and at 41.275°N 110.802°W / 41.275; -110.802 enters the vastly larger Great Basin, staying within it until the crest of the Sierra Nevada at Donner Summit.".
- Great_Divide_Basin country United_States_of_America_Mathematical_Olympiad.
- Great_Divide_Basin elevation "1981.2".
- Great_Divide_Basin geology "(Green River Formation)".
- Great_Divide_Basin geology "MarineUpper Cretaceousrocks,".
- Great_Divide_Basin geology "continental earlyPaleogenerocks,".
- Great_Divide_Basin geology "lacustrine rocksEocene".
- Great_Divide_Basin location Carbon_County,_Wyoming.
- Great_Divide_Basin location Fremont_County,_Wyoming.
- Great_Divide_Basin location Sweetwater_County,_Wyoming.
- Great_Divide_Basin region Red_Desert_(Wyoming).
- Great_Divide_Basin state Wyoming_Territory.
- Great_Divide_Basin thumbnail NorthAmerica-WaterDivides.png?width=300.
- Great_Divide_Basin type Drainage_basin.
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- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageLength "13843".
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageOutDegree "69".
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageRevisionID "699399956".
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Bairoil,_Wyoming.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Bridger_Pass.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Bureau_of_Land_Management.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Carbon_County,_Wyoming.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Category:Drainage_basins_of_North_America.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Category:Endorheic_basins_of_the_United_States.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Category:Great_Divide_of_North_America.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Category:Landforms_of_Carbon_County,_Wyoming.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Category:Landforms_of_Fremont_County,_Wyoming.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Category:Landforms_of_Sweetwater_County,_Wyoming.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Category:Landforms_of_Wyoming.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Centrocercus.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Continental_Divide_of_the_Americas.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Donner_Pass.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Drainage_basin.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Dune.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Elk.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Endorheic_basin.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Eocene.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Fremont_County,_Wyoming.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Great_Basin.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Green_River_(Colorado_River).
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Green_River_Formation.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Henry_Bourne_Joy.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Horse.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Interstate_80.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Lamont,_Wyoming.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Lander,_Wyoming.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Late_Cretaceous.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Lincoln_Highway.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Mule_deer.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Natural_gas.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink North_Platte_River.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Oil.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Oregon_Trail.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Overland_Trail.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Paleogene.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Pheasant.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Pronghorn.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Rain.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Ravine.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Rawlins,_Wyoming.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Red_Desert_(Wyoming).
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Salt_pan_(geology).
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Sherman,_Wyoming.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Shrub.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Sierra_Madre_Range_(Wyoming).
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Sierra_Nevada_(U.S.).
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink South_Pass_(Wyoming).
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Sweetwater_County,_Wyoming.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink U.S._Route_287.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink U.S._Route_30.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Union_Pacific_Railroad.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink United_States_of_America_Mathematical_Olympiad.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink United_States_physiographic_region.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink United_States_territorial_acquisitions.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Uranium_ore.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Wamsutter,_Wyoming.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Wind_River_Range.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Wyoming.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Wyoming_Highway_789.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Wyoming_Territory.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLink File:Lightning_and_hail_storm_in_the_Great_Divide_Basin.jpg.
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLinkText "Great Divide Basin".
- Great_Divide_Basin wikiPageWikiLinkText "Great Divide".
- Great_Divide_Basin areaImperial "3959".
- Great_Divide_Basin areaRound "1".
- Great_Divide_Basin category "Drainage basin".
- Great_Divide_Basin country "United States".
- Great_Divide_Basin countryFlag "1".
- Great_Divide_Basin districtName "district name".
- Great_Divide_Basin elevationImperial "6500".
- Great_Divide_Basin elevationRound "-2".
- Great_Divide_Basin geology "Marine Upper Cretaceous rocks,".
- Great_Divide_Basin geology "continental early Paleogene rocks,".
- Great_Divide_Basin geology "lacustrine rocks Eocene".
- Great_Divide_Basin highestLongEw "W".
- Great_Divide_Basin imageCaption "The Great Divide Basin is an endorheic drainage basin on the Continental Divide in the United States.".
- Great_Divide_Basin latD "41".
- Great_Divide_Basin latM "0".
- Great_Divide_Basin latNs "N".
- Great_Divide_Basin latS "1".