Salt Creek Dome is the northernmost of the domes developed on the Salt Creek anticline. ... The name is derived from Salt Creek which, entering the dome on its eastern side, turns northerly and leaves it at its northern extremity. (Jamison)
County:
Natrona
Feature Category:
Manmade Features
Alternate Spellings:
Salt Creek Oilfield
More Reading:
Knight, Wilbur C. and E.E. Slosson. The Petroleum of Salt Creek, Wyoming. Petroleum Series Bulletin No. 1. Laramie, Wyo.: The University, 1896.; Jamison, C. E. The Salt Creek Oil Field Natrona County, Wyo. Cheyenne, Wyo.: S. A. Bristol Co. Printers, 1912.; Trumbull, L. W. The Salt Creek Oil Field, Natrona County. Cheyenne, Wyo.:State of Wyoming, Geologist's Office, 1914.; Wegemann, Carroll H. The Salt Creek Oil Field, Wyoming. U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin No. 670. Washington, DC: GPO, 1918.; Roberts, Harold Dewitt. Salt Creek, Wyoming The story of a great oil field. Denver: Midwest Oil Corporation, 1956.; Tour guide Salt Creek oil field, Natrona County, Wyoming. Rosenberg Historical Consultants. Casper, Wyo.: Mountain States Lithographing, 2003.; Tom Rea. Boom, Bust, and After Life in the Salt Creek Oil Field. WyoHistory.org
