Pumping Station/Storage Tank Facility

How to find it: From Teapot Dome, return to State Route 259. Stop at a high point a short distance north of the Teapot Dome road and look north along the east side of the highway right-of-way fence. Faintly visible are four large but shallow circular earthen berms, measuring almost 300 feet in diameter. (NE/NE, SE/NE Section 30, T39N-R78W)

Oil Derek

About the site: These berms mark the former location of four large oil storage tanks that were part of a pumping station located along an oil pipeline constructed from Salt Creek to Casper in 1924-1925. the earthen berms were used to contain the oil in teh event of a leak or fire.

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Stop 1 A Symbol of Scandal: Teapot Rock · Stop 2 Not a Trace: Teapot Townsite · Stop 3 New Lavoye: The Palm Beach of Wyoming · Stop 4 Teapot Dome (Naval Petroleum Reserve): Watergate of the 1920s · Stop 5 Pumping Station/Storage Tank Facility · Stop 6 Old Lavoye: Picked Up and Moved · Stop 7 The North-South Railroad: Remnants of a Grand Scheme · Stop 8 Gas Plant Camp, Midwest's Major Suburb · Stop 9 Salt Creek Oil Field Interpretive Sign and Oil Derrick · Stop 10 Canadian Camp · Stop 11 Midwest Cemetery · Stop 12 Lewis Camp (Camp No. 3) · Stop 13 Jackass (IBA) Spring · Stop 14 The First Well: Shannon Pool Oil Field; Shannon Camp · Stop 15 A Monument to Engineering: The Midwest Electric Plant · Stop 16 Midwest: Where "Democracy and Fairness Predominates"

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