Cody

Sister cities

• Lanchkhuti
• Camaiore

History

The Shoshone and Crow people lived in the area before European settlers came. John Colter, a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, was likely the first to travel through the land that would become Cody. The 1868 Treaty placed the Crow Reservation to the north and Wind River Reservation to the South. His Shoshone Irrigation Company, through George T. Beck, laid out the town. He was personally involved in developing the town doing things like making sure the streets were wide and recommending liquor license fees were high enough to keep away rough trade. Named for his daughter, Cody built the Irma Hotel in 1902. It was one of only two foundries in Wyoming.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. The Shoshone River flows through Cody in a canyon. There are four bridges over this river in the Cody vicinity, one at the north edge of town that allows travel to the north, and one about east of Cody that allows passage to Powell and the areas to the north and east. The other two are west of town; one allows access to the East Gate of Yellowstone National Park, and the other is used by fishermen in Shoshone Canyon and as access to the Buffalo Bill Dam. Cody is located at the western edge of the Bighorn Basin, a depression surrounded by the Big Horn, Owl Creek, Bridger, and Absaroka ranges. At the western edge of Cody, a deep canyon formed by the Shoshone River provides the only passage to Yellowstone's Eastern Entrance. At its mouth and rising above Cody are Rattlesnake Mountain on the north side and Cedar Mountain on the south side. Much of Cody has views of Heart Mountain, whose peak is directly north of Cody, and the Carter Mountain massif, which forms a line with peaks above , some to the south. Cody has a typical Western US cool semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk), chatacterized by warm summers and freezing, dry winters. The settlement enjoys about 300 days of sunshine per year, and is in USDA plant hardiness zone 5a (). The Buffalo Bill Dam between Rattlesnake and Cedar mountains forms a large reservoir about to the west of Cody. This reservoir (among others) feeds the Shoshone Project, a large irrigation water distribution system. The wettest calendar year has been 2014 with and the driest 1956 with . The most precipitation in one month was in June 1992, and the most in 24 hours on July 22, 1973. There are an average of 72.3 days with…

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• European Starling

  Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,352
• Common Raven

  Corvus corax Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,320
• Black-billed Magpie

  Pica hudsonia (Sabine, 1823) · Aves
  1,237
• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  1,202
• House Sparrow

  Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,068
• Red-winged Blackbird

  Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  929
• Canada Goose (canadensis Group)

  Branta canadensis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  829
• Mallard

  Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  786

Largest nearby schools

• Cody High School
  High · Cody · 629 students · 15.7:1 ratio
• Cody Middle School
  Middle · Cody · 465 students · 12.2:1 ratio
• Sunset Elementary
  Elementary · Cody · 311 students · 11.1:1 ratio
• Glenn Livingston Elementary
  Elementary · Cody · 295 students · 11.8:1 ratio
• Eastside Elementary
  Elementary · Cody · 292 students · 11.2:1 ratio
• Heart Mountain Academy
  High · Cody · 37 students · 7.4:1 ratio

Most recent

• M 3.34 — 2023-10-10
  37 km S of Silver Gate, Montana
• M 3.4 — 2022-11-12
  45 km NE of Dubois, Wyoming
• M 4.22 — 2022-05-11
  36 km S of Silver Gate, Montana
• M 2.56 — 2021-12-18
  35 km S of Silver Gate, Montana
• M 2.67 — 2021-06-02
  36 km S of Silver Gate, Montana
• M 2.62 — 2020-12-06
  68 km SSE of Mammoth, Wyoming