List of counties in Wyoming explained

Counties of Wyoming
Territory:State of Wyoming
Current Number:23
Population Range:2,354 (Niobrara) – 100,984 (Laramie)
Area Range: (Hot Springs) – (Sweetwater)
Government:County government
Subdivision:cities, towns, townships, unincorporated communities, Indian reservations, census designated place

There are 23 counties in the U.S. state of Wyoming. There were originally five counties in the Wyoming Territory: Laramie and Carter, established in 1867; Carbon and Albany established in 1868; and Uinta, and annexed portion of Utah and Idaho, extending from Montana (including Yellowstone Park) to the Wyoming–Utah boundary.[1] On July 10, 1890, Wyoming was admitted to the Union with thirteen counties in it. Ten more counties were created after statehood.

Two counties were renamed after their creation. Carter County was renamed Sweetwater County on December 1, 1869.[2] Pease County, formed in 1875, was renamed Johnson County in 1879.[3]

The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code, which is used by the United States government to uniquely identify states and counties, is provided with each entry.[4] Wyoming's code is 56, which when combined with any county code would be written as 56XXX. The FIPS code for each county links to census data for that county.[5]

List

CountyFIPS code County seat[6] Formed fromEtymology[7] Population[8] AreaMap

Notes and References

  1. Web site: General Facts About Wyoming . July 20, 2007 . State of Wyoming . https://web.archive.org/web/20070512143401/http://wyoming.gov/general/history.asp . May 12, 2007.
  2. Web site: Carter County Records . July 20, 2007 . Wyoming State Archives . https://web.archive.org/web/20080503190151/http://wyoarchives.state.wy.us/databases/county/carter/carter.htm . May 3, 2008.
  3. Web site: Wyoming Counties . July 20, 2007 . American Local History Network . RootsWeb.com.
  4. Web site: FIPS Publish 6-4. National Institute of Standards and Technology. July 20, 2007. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130929074056/http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/fip6-4.htm. September 29, 2013.
  5. Web site: EPA County FIPS Code Listing . July 20, 2007 . US Environmental Protection Agency . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130730055653/http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/codes/wy.html . July 30, 2013 .
  6. Web site: NACo - Find a county . National Association of Counties . July 20, 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070930181309/http://www.naco.org/Template.cfm?Section=Find_a_County&Template=%2Fcffiles%2Fcounties%2Fstate.cfm&state.cfm&statecode=WY . September 30, 2007 . dead .
  7. Web site: Name Derivations of Wyoming Counties . July 20, 2007 . Wyoming State Library . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130825095735/http://gowyld.net/wyoming/counties.html . August 25, 2013 .
  8. Web site: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: Wyoming . United States Census Bureau, Population Division . July 2023 . April 19, 2024 .

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