Casper is a city located in Central Wyoming. According to the 2010 US Census the city has a population of 55,316. The primary arena for the city is the Casper Events Center which seats 8,395.
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| - Casper is a city located in Central Wyoming. According to the 2010 US Census the city has a population of 55,316. The primary arena for the city is the Casper Events Center which seats 8,395.
- Casper is the county seat of Natrona County, Wyoming, USA. Casper is the second-largest city in Wyoming (only Cheyenne, the state capital, is larger), according to the 2010 census, with a population of 55,316. Casper is nicknamed "The Oil City" and has a long history of oil boomtown and cowboy culture, dating back to development of the nearby Salt Creek Oil Field.
- County seat of Natrona County, Wyoming. Center of the Casper, Wyoming Radio Market.
- The city is located at the foot of Casper Mountain, the north end of the Laramie Mountain Range, along the North Platte River. The city was established east of the site of Fort Caspar, which was built during the mid-19th century mass migration of land seekers along the Oregon, California and Mormon trails. Emigrant tracks are still visible along the North Platte River north of town. Although relatively small by national standards, its location within the region makes Casper a center of banking and commerce. Since the discovery of crude oil in the region during the 1890s, Casper became the regional petroleum industry center. Oil was first discovered in the infamous Salt Creek Oil Field in 1889, approximately 40 miles (64 km) north of Casper, and the first refinery in Casper was built in 189
- As Wyoming was designated by the Steele Administration as part of the restricted zone for former wreckers in 1937, many wreckers who served their time wound up in Casper. This included carpenter John Dennison, a Casper native, who returned to his home town after he completed his sentence in the 1940s. In the 1950s, Dennison arranged for his fellow wrecker, Mike Sullivan, to come to Casper after Sullivan left the U.S. Army.
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| - Casper is a city located in Central Wyoming. According to the 2010 US Census the city has a population of 55,316. The primary arena for the city is the Casper Events Center which seats 8,395.
- As Wyoming was designated by the Steele Administration as part of the restricted zone for former wreckers in 1937, many wreckers who served their time wound up in Casper. This included carpenter John Dennison, a Casper native, who returned to his home town after he completed his sentence in the 1940s. In the 1950s, Dennison arranged for his fellow wrecker, Mike Sullivan, to come to Casper after Sullivan left the U.S. Army. Both men were working in Casper when Joe Steele died on March 5, 1953. The people of Casper were generally shocked and publicly mourned. Sullivan and Dennison, on the other hand, savored Steele's death in private.
- The city is located at the foot of Casper Mountain, the north end of the Laramie Mountain Range, along the North Platte River. The city was established east of the site of Fort Caspar, which was built during the mid-19th century mass migration of land seekers along the Oregon, California and Mormon trails. Emigrant tracks are still visible along the North Platte River north of town. Although relatively small by national standards, its location within the region makes Casper a center of banking and commerce. Since the discovery of crude oil in the region during the 1890s, Casper became the regional petroleum industry center. Oil was first discovered in the infamous Salt Creek Oil Field in 1889, approximately 40 miles (64 km) north of Casper, and the first refinery in Casper was built in 1895. The city has scheduled air service at Natrona County International Airport, a former army air base built during World War II. With the development of the Wyoming coal and uranium fields in recent decades, the city has continued its role as an important center for the energy industry. Casper and the rest of Wyoming is served by the Casper Star-Tribune, a newspaper with statewide circulation. Casper is also the site of Casper College. The city is home to the Casper Troopers, a drum and bugle corps in Drum Corps International. Casper was the hometown of Matthew Shepard, a University of Wyoming student who was murdered in Laramie during October 1998 in an apparent anti-gay hate crime that received international media attention. In January 2005 Shepard's former high school classmate Guy V. Padgett III was elected mayor of Casper, becoming the first openly gay elected official in Wyoming history. NBC newsman Pete Williams has also been a member of the Casper gay community, serving as news director for K2 News before moving on to national broadcasting.
- Casper is the county seat of Natrona County, Wyoming, USA. Casper is the second-largest city in Wyoming (only Cheyenne, the state capital, is larger), according to the 2010 census, with a population of 55,316. Casper is nicknamed "The Oil City" and has a long history of oil boomtown and cowboy culture, dating back to development of the nearby Salt Creek Oil Field.
- County seat of Natrona County, Wyoming. Center of the Casper, Wyoming Radio Market.
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