Wyoming · Census place 5605320
Basin, Wyoming
Basin is a town in Big Horn County, Wyoming with an estimated 1,337 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 37th largest of 43 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 1,337
- #37 of 43 in Wyoming
- Change since 2020
- +4.0%
- +52 people
- Land area
- 2.4 sq mi
- + 0.03 sq mi water
- Density
- 567 / sq mi
- State median 1,493
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Basin population, 2020 to 2024
Basin added 52 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.0%. In the latest year it moved by +1.
Basin covers 2.36 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 567 people per square mile of land. The median Wyoming place of 5,000+ has 1,493, so Basin is less dense than the typical town.
What county Basin is in
All of Basin's residents live in Big Horn County, which had 12,084 residents in 2024. Basin holds 11.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Basin
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Basin by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 82410. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.
Where Basin is
The Census internal point of Basin is at 44.380600, -108.047100. Cheyenne, the capital, is 277.3 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Greybull, WY (1,715 people), 7.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Billings, MT, 100.4 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 44.380600, -108.047100
- DMS
- 44°22'50.16"N 108°02'49.56"W
- UTM
- 12N 735229.9E 4918388.2N
- Geohash
- 9xghmr4x8
- Plus code
- 85PH9XJ3+65
Daylight in Basin
At 44.38° N, Basin gets about 15 h 32 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 51 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 42 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Basin
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wyoming, measured between internal points. The closest is Greybull, 7.3 miles away, with 1,715 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Basin, WY?
1,337 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 52 (4.0%) from 1,285 in July 2020.
What county is Basin in?
Big Horn County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Basin?
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 82410.
How far is Basin from Cheyenne?
277.3 miles (446.3 km) in a straight line, heading SE from Basin.
What is the nearest larger city to Basin?
Greybull, WY, with 1,715 residents, 7.3 miles away between internal points.
Sources and data as of
Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.