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Rawlins, WY -- U.S. city in Wyoming
Population (2000): 8538
Housing Units (2000): 3860
Land area (2000): 7.402721 sq. miles (19.172958 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7.402721 sq. miles (19.172958 sq. km)
FIPS code: 63900
Located within: Wyoming (WY), FIPS 56
Location: 41.790397 N, 107.234297 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 82301
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Rawlins, WY
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Rawlins -- U.S. County in Kansas
Population (2000): 2966
Housing Units (2000): 1565
Land area (2000): 1069.616245 sq. miles (2770.293240 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.108480 sq. miles (0.280961 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1069.724725 sq. miles (2770.574201 sq. km)
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 39.790772 N, 101.066921 W
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Rawlins County
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Rawlins

Rawlins may refer to:

Rawlins (surname)

Rawlins is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Adrian Rawlins, British actor
  • Chip Rawlins, writer
  • Dennis Rawlins, American astronomer, historian, and publisher
  • Horace Rawlins, English professional golfer
  • John Aaron Rawlins, American Civil War general
  • Joseph Lafayette Rawlins, American politician and lawyer
  • Michael Rawlins, Chairman of UK's Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
  • Nicholas Rawlins, British experimental psychologist
  • Richard Rawlins, former Bishop of St. Davids
  • Rondell Rawlins, Guyanese gang leader
  • V. Lane Rawlins, former president of Washington State University
  • Xander Rawlins, British singer-songwriter best known for the charity single "1000 Miles Apart"

Usage examples of "rawlins".

When Rawlins offered a man fifty centavos for the half pennysworth of water it would take to fill their canteens the man would have no part of it.

Crossing the old Mark Fury ranch in the night where they'd dismounted at the crossfences for John Grady to pull the staples with a catspaw and stand on the wires while Rawlins led the horses through and then raise the wires back and beat the staples into the posts and put the catspaw back in his saddlebag and mount up to ride on.

There was no back to the bench and Blevins flailed wildly for a moment and then crashed to the floor behind him, kicking the table underneath and rattling the dishes and almost pulling over the bench with Rawlins and John Grady.

He and Rawlins lay in the road where they could feel the heat coming off the blacktop against their backs and they watched stars falling down the long black slope of the firmament.

He dropped down to see if he could skylight Rawlins but Rawlins wasnt there.

When Rawlins sat up John Grady had already saddled his horse and was strapping on his bedroll.

When he came out the horses were tied to a picnic table under some trees and Rawlins was in the cafe drinking coffee.

He ordered three eggs with ham and beans and biscuits and Rawlins ordered the same with a sideorder of hotcakes and syrup.

It was an oilcompany roadmap that Rawlins had picked up at the cafe and he looked at it and he looked south toward the gap in the low hills.

They were dusty, and Rawlins was unshaven and they smelled of horses and sweat and woodsmoke.

A little off to the right was a stand of closegrown cedar and Rawlins nodded at the cedars and slowed his horse.

They quartered downstream with the current, the naked riders leaning forward and talking to the horses, Rawlins holding the rifle aloft in one hand, lined out behind one another and making for the alien shore like a party of marauders.

He rolled it in his hand with a forward flip and handed it toward Rawlins butt-first upside down.

She reached to the shelves behind and got down three tumblers and stood them on the board and took up the dipper and dredged up a thin brown liquid and filled the glasses and Rawlins laid a dollar bill on the counter.

They rode back, Rawlins leading the riderless horse by the bridlereins.