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Welcome to Badwater ...

Badwater is located in Natrona County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Badwater, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1911.

Badwater is 6,260 feet [1,908 m] above sea level.<2> In other words, the elevation of Badwater is about 1¼ mile [or ~2 km] above sea level.

Time Zone: Badwater lies in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Badwater: 307

Communities Also Named Badwater ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Badwater - it's located in California.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Badwater.

Communities near Badwater ...

We have created a list of 4 communities that are near Badwater.

  • Lost Cabin
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Lost Cabin. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lost Cabin
    • Lost Cabin is located in Fremont County
  • Lysite
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Hiland
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hiland
    • Hiland is located in Natrona County
  • Powder River
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We're compiling a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Badwater. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Badwater.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Badwater. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Badwater.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Badwater ...

Looking for more information about Badwater? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Badwater, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Badwater.

Adding Badwater to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Badwater in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Badwater was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Badwater post office opened in 1911.

We also found Badwater on a map titled Shell Oil Road Map for Wyoming (1956).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Badwater.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Wyoming's counties, including Natrona, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Badwater - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/