Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Ten Sleep, WY

Ten Sleep is a town in Washakie County, Wyoming, in the Bighorn Basin in the western foothills of the Bighorn Mountains, about 26 miles east of Worland and 59 miles west of Buffalo.

The 2020 census counted 246 people in 120 households in the town.

Ten Sleep was an American Indian rest stop, so called because it was 10 days' travel, or "10 sleeps," from Fort Laramie, Yellowstone National Park, and the Indian Agency on the Stillwater River in Montana.

In March 1909 the town was the site of the Spring Creek Raid, one of the last feuds of the West's Sheep and Cattlemen's War, in which cattlemen attacked sheep herders, killing three men and shooting hundreds of sheep.

The town covers just 0.18 square miles of land and sits at an elevation of 4,433 feet, and its ZIP code is 82442.

Ten Sleep has a hot-summer humid continental climate, with a record high of 105 degrees Fahrenheit on July 13, 2005, and a record low of minus 34 degrees on December 22, 1990.

The Tensleep Formation, a yellowish-gray to white Pennsylvanian sandstone, features in much of nearby Ten Sleep Canyon, and the area's Cloverly Formation is rich in dinosaur fossils.

Big Cedar Ridge, a public fossil-collecting area near town, is open for exploration and collection for personal use.

Near the entrance to Ten Sleep Canyon is the former site of the Girl Scout National Center West, part of which is now the Nature Conservancy's Tensleep Preserve.

Ten Sleep Mercantile, built in 1905 by H.T. Church, has been the focal point of the town since it was built, and was operated from 1919 to 1943 by Paul Frison, who served as mayor and as a Wyoming state legislator.