Draw Wyoming Outline from Memory
How well do you know The Equality State? Draw Wyoming from memory and score 0–100 based on how accurately you sketch its distinctive outline.
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Why Wyoming Looks the Way It Does
Wyoming is the surveyor's grid at its most confident. Congress created the territory in 1868 and the state in 1890 from pure geometry: four parallels and meridians, no natural boundary consulted. It is one of only two states — Colorado is the other — that is exactly a rectangle, and drawing the pair from memory is the fastest way to understand how much of the American West was organized on paper before anyone surveyed the ground.
The rectangle hides a social revolution. In 1869 the Wyoming Territory's legislature granted women the right to vote — the first government in the world to do so by explicit law — a move partly idealistic and partly practical, in a place desperate to attract settlers' wives. When Wyoming considered statehood in 1889, it threatened to stay out of the Union rather than give the vote up, which is why it's called the Equality State.
The northwest corner holds another world first. Yellowstone, set aside in 1872 as America's first national park, sits almost entirely inside the rectangle's top-left — a supervolcano caldera, its geysers and grizzlies, walled in by straight lines that make no reference to it. Wyoming is the ultimate argument of the grid West: the land could contain anything at all, and the state would still be exactly this box.
Quick Facts: Wyoming
- Capital
- Cheyenne
- Nickname
- The Equality State
- Statehood
- 1890
- Area
- 251,470 km²
What is "Drawing Wyoming Outline from Memory"?
Drawing Wyoming from memory means sketching the Equality State's border on a blank canvas without looking at a map. Focus on the state's distinctive features and overall proportions — that's what pushes your accuracy score up.
Wyoming became a state in 1890 and is rated ★ out of 4 for drawing difficulty — one of the gentlest starter shapes on the site. When you hit Reveal, your sketch is scored 0–100 against the real border, so every attempt teaches you something about the outline.
Wyoming is the second of America's two perfect rectangles, a box between the 41st and 45th parallels and the 104th and 111th meridians. No rivers, no coasts, no notches — just four straight lines, slightly taller than they are wide.
How to Draw Wyoming from Memory
Step 01
Draw a rectangle slightly taller than it is wide. Wyoming and Colorado are the only two perfect boxes among the states, and keeping them distinct is a memory trick: Colorado is the wide one, Wyoming the tall one.
Step 02
The top edge is the 45th parallel — halfway between the equator and the pole — and the bottom is the 41st, exactly one degree above Colorado's top line. Stacking Wyoming directly on Colorado in your mental map is a genuinely accurate picture of the map.
Step 03
Remember the northwest corner: Yellowstone, the world's first national park, sits inside the rectangle's top-left. The corner itself is still a clean right angle — Yellowstone's geysers, like everything else in the state, live quietly inside the box.
Colorado's taller twin: one more perfect rectangle, four straight sides, four right angles — just shifted two degrees north and stretched a little taller.
How Wyoming Is Scored
When you hit Reveal & compare, your sketch is measured against Wyoming's real border, point by point, in the same canvas space. Three numbers come back:
Matched — the share of the real border your drawing covered. 100% means you traced every part of the outline.
Extra — how much of your drawing fell outside the true border. This catches sketches that are too big, mispositioned, or drifting off.
Missed — the border you didn't reach, the flip side of Matched.
The three combine into a single 0–100 accuracy score. The rating names give you a target: 80+ is Cartographer, 60+ is Border patrol, 40+ is Getting there, and below 40 is Try again.
Drawing large and roughly centered is the single fastest way to raise your score — a small sketch tucked in a corner overlaps less of the true border, so it scores lower. For Wyoming, keep the whole outline in frame and let the distinctive parts do the work.
FAQ
- What makes Wyoming's outline distinctive?
- Wyoming is the second of America's two perfect rectangles, a box between the 41st and 45th parallels and the 104th and 111th meridians. No rivers, no coasts, no notches — just four straight lines, slightly taller than they are wide.
- How hard is it to draw Wyoming from memory?
- Wyoming is rated ★ out of 4 for drawing difficulty — one of the gentlest starter shapes on the site. You can score your attempts immediately and watch your accuracy climb with practice.
- Which states border Wyoming?
- Wyoming shares its border with 6 US states — Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, and Idaho are on this site. Drawing a neighbor right after Wyoming helps anchor both outlines in your memory.
- How is my Wyoming drawing scored?
- Your sketch is compared with Wyoming's real border, point by point, in the same canvas space. Matched is the share of the border you covered, Extra is how much of your drawing fell outside it, and Missed is the border you didn't reach. The three combine into a single 0–100 accuracy score.
- Can I draw Wyoming on mobile?
- Yes — Wyoming works on desktop, tablet, and mobile. Draw with your finger on touchscreens; no app download is required and it runs directly in your browser.