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Wyoming Highway 432

state highway in Wyoming, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ2509186
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Wyoming Highway 432 (WYO 432) is a 10.29-mile-long (16.56 km) Wyoming state road in Washakie County. WYO 432 is locally known as South Flat Road for the Census-designated place (CDP) of the same name that it passes through.

Route description

Wyoming Highway 432 begins at US 20/WYO 789 and the eastern terminus of Wyoming Highway 431 approximately 8 miles southwest of Worland. Highway 432 heads east, crossing the Bighorn River before entering the CDP of South Flats from the west. Here WYO 432 turns north, and will follow the east bank of the Bighorn River north to Worland. Upon reaching the city limits of Worland, Highway 432 abruptly ends as Railway Avenue continues north into the city. US 20/WYO 789, which lies just under a mile north of here, can be reached via Railway Avenue, Culbertson Avenue and S. 5th Street. Signs stating "TO WYO 432" are posted on US 20/WYO 789 (Bighorn Avenue) and southbound along Culbertson Avenue and S. Railway Avenue.

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The entire route is in Washakie County.

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The public source identifies “Wyoming Highway 432” as state highway in Wyoming, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Wyoming, Highway and state.

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This entry incorporates text from Wyoming Highway 432” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.