Powder Horn is a

golf course community A golf course community is a type of residential Subdivision (land), housing development built around a golf course. History Temple Terrace, Florida is often described as the first planned golf-course community in the United States, dating fro ...

and

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

(CDP) in Sheridan County,

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, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 682. The community is in south-central Sheridan County, bordered to the southwest by Big Horn and south of Sheridan, the

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. The community is in the valley of

Little Goose Creek Little Goose Creek is a creek originating on the east slope of the Big Horn Mountains in north-central Wyoming.* Route After dropping over and entering a steep canyon, the creek flows out of the Big Horn Mountains and into the Powder River Basin. ...

, which flows north to join Big Goose Creek in Sheridan, forming Goose Creek, which in turn is a north-flowing tributary of the Tongue River, leading to the

Yellowstone River The Yellowstone River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately long, in the Western United States. Considered the principal tributary of the upper Missouri, via its own tributaries it drains an area with headwaters across the mountain ...

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References

Populated places in Sheridan County, Wyoming Census-designated places in Sheridan County, Wyoming Census-designated places in Wyoming {{Wyoming-geo-stub