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Midwest is a town in Natrona County, Wyoming, and part of the Casper metropolitan statistical area, with a population of 285 at the 2020 census.

The town grew with the Salt Creek Oil Field and began as a tent city called Home Camp, a Midwest Oil Company town where families could be raised, before it was renamed Midwest in 1924.

Oil claims in the Salt Creek area were first made in 1883, but the first strike did not come until 1908, and the field went on to become one of the first unitized oil fields in the nation, where one company operates the properties for all owners.

The company town was run dry, with no alcohol allowed and gambling restricted, which led to the founding of the neighboring town of Edgerton on public land where oil workers could find the vices Midwest banned.

Midwest was the site of the first night high school football game in November 1925, when Casper beat Midwest 20-0.

The town's population peaked at 638 in the 1980 census and fell to 285 by 2020, down 29.5 percent from 404 in the 2010 census.

In the 2010 census, Midwest had 404 people in 148 households, with a median age of 30.9 years.

The town covers 0.49 square miles of land at an elevation of 4,849 feet, and its ZIP code is 82643.

The Salt Creek Museum stands in Midwest in the town's old hospital building, and it opened in 1980.

Midwest has a warm-summer humid continental climate, with a record high of 106 degrees Fahrenheit and a record low of minus 42 degrees.