Ranchester, WY Mobile Commercial Kitchen Rentals and Emergency Cold Storage

Operations around Ranchester that cannot pause food service can lease a mobile commercial kitchen for a week, a month or the length of a long renovation. If the work spills into Sheridan, 13 miles from here, or into Buffalo, a kitchen rented here can be planned around both sites.

Common choices include the 38ft Mobile Kitchen (220V, single phase, 200 to 220A), the 24ft Mobile Kitchen (220V, single phase, 200A) and the 28ft Mobile Kitchen (220V, single phase, 200A). Each model page lists the equipment and the electrical service.

Ranchester is the 39th most populous of the 54 Wyoming places this site covers, with an estimated 1,176 residents in 2024. The town spans roughly 0.7 square miles in Sheridan County. Sheridan County covers 2,523 square miles and has 3 places on this site, about 21,818 residents between them; the largest is Sheridan. Population density is roughly 1,659 people per square mile. Cheyenne, the Wyoming capital, is about 287 miles away in a straight line, which matters for state-level emergency coordination. Sheridan is the closest larger covered place, roughly 13 straight-line miles from Ranchester.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau Gazetteer 2024 and Vintage 2024 population estimates. Distances are straight-line estimates, not driving distances.

Sources: OpenFEMA (retrieved October 30, 2026); NOAA Storm Events, NIFC fire perimeters, NOAA nClimDiv normals, CMS provider data, NCES school data and USASpending.gov (retrieved October 31, 2026). Public records for an area or a project, not damage reports or work we did.

A kitchen is only half of food service. A dishwashing trailer such as the 38ft High-Temp Conveyor Dishwashing Trailer (220V, single phase, 300A) handles trays, plates and pans so Ranchester kitchens do not fall back on disposables. Basin, 57 miles away, has the same problem when the dish room closes before the cooking line does.

Refrigeration is an emergency. When a walk-in cooler or freezer breaks down in Ranchester, stock starts to warm immediately, so an emergency refrigerated trailer such as the 20ft LT Refrigerated Trailer gives product somewhere cold to go. In Lovell, where Big Horn County has 2 federal declarations on record, the call for emergency refrigeration begins the same way.

Climate normals for Sheridan County run from an average January low of 12°F to an average July high of 82°F, with roughly 18 inches of precipitation yearly. With nights that cold, a kitchen trailer needs heated or insulated water lines, and a refrigerated trailer should not be asked to hold product warm against freezing air.

Rental customers in Ranchester are commercial, institutional and public: manufacturers, municipal agencies, construction crews and nursing homes. Each has its own pressure points, from a industrial facility temporary kitchen during a remodel to keeping staff fed through a long project. Care homes in Worland and school kitchens in Powell, places of about 4,765 residents and about 6,551 residents, lose their lines for different reasons, but the rental that answers them is the same.

CMS lists 2 hospitals in Sheridan County: Sheridan Memorial Hospital and Sheridan VA Medical Center. The county also has 3 nursing homes certified by Medicare or Medicaid, with about 278 beds. Public schools here number 21, enrolling about 4,718 students, with Sheridan County School District #2, Sheridan County School District #1 and Sheridan County School District #3 among the larger districts (NCES).

• Manufacturing Plant Cafeteria Kitchen Rentals: three-phase power at the plant matched to the equipment
• Municipal and Public Institution Kitchen Trailer Rentals: senior-nutrition and community meal programs that cannot pause
• Construction Site Mobile Kitchen Rentals for Crews: shift work that needs meals at odd hours
• Nursing Home and Assisted Living Kitchen Rentals: equipment failure in an older kitchen that cannot be repaired quickly

A shared kitchen need can span several communities. The nearest places to Ranchester are listed with their straight-line distance; road distance and delivery time will differ.

• Dayton, WY: about 5 miles from Ranchester, about 829 residents
• Sheridan, WY: about 13 miles from Ranchester, about 19,813 residents
• Buffalo, WY: about 45 miles from Ranchester, about 4,655 residents
• Greybull, WY: about 52 miles from Ranchester, about 1,715 residents
• Basin, WY: about 57 miles from Ranchester, about 1,337 residents
• Lovell, WY: about 60 miles from Ranchester, about 2,366 residents

The checklist does not change for Gillette or Cody, but the pad, the power and the permit usually do.

• Wastewater: plan sewer access, a holding tank or pump-out service, depending on the site in Ranchester.
• Timing: share your start date and rental period so the quote reflects the real schedule.
• Electrical: confirm the service matches the model, for example 220V single phase at 200 to 220A for the 40ft kitchens.

The site planning guides cover each of these items in more depth.

The nearest Wyoming counties to Ranchester are Big Horn County (48 miles), Johnson County (66 miles) and Washakie County (75 miles).

• Big Horn County: about 48 miles from Ranchester, 2 FEMA declarations since records began, 2 hospitals listed by CMS
• Johnson County: about 66 miles from Ranchester, 5 FEMA declarations since records began, 1 hospital listed by CMS
• Washakie County: about 75 miles from Ranchester, 3 FEMA declarations since records began, 1 hospital listed by CMS

Plan the kitchen first; everything else is sized around mobile kitchens in Ranchester. Crews on a long or remote job can add remote workforce housing with multi-use crew support trailers, such as the Office, Sleeper, Shower and Restroom Trailer, or bunk bed sleeper trailer rentals, such as the 20ft Contractor Accommodation Unit. Each model page lists its equipment and power, and we quote them on request.