Moorcroft is a town in Crook County, Wyoming, United States.

[6] The exact meaning of Moorcroft is unknown but over the years has several suggested origins for the name.

The town was named in 1876 after Alexander Moorcroft, an early settler from Northern England who built a cabin in the Black Hills of Wyoming.

[7][6][8][9] The name Moorcroft was chosen by the community’s first postman Stocks Millar (1858-1890) after his home town in Scotland.

[7][8] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.26 square miles (3.26 km2), all land.

Public education in the town of Moorcroft is provided by Crook County School District #1.

[14] Moorcroft was depicted in the 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind as an evacuation point for crowds escaping a supposed military nerve gas leak near Devils Tower.