The Basin Oil Field Tipi Rings were first noted during a cultural resource inventory along a coal slurry pipeline route.
Located near the confluence of Caballo Creek and the Belle Fourche River in northeastern Wyoming, the site primarily represents a Middle Missouri encampment in the Late Prehistoric or Protohistoric periods.
The middle Missouri tradition includes elements of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Crow.
[2] The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
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