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Counties of Wyoming. 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 ...
Carter is a census-designated place (CDP) in Uinta County, Wyoming, United States. [1] Established by the United States Census Bureau in 1980, the CDP was named after the former village of Carter, in turn named for Judge William A. Carter, which was located within the CDP and of which some abandoned buildings remain standing. The population of ...
Sweetwater County was created on December 17, 1867, as a county within the Dakota Territory. [5] The county was formed of territory partitioned from Laramie County.The county was originally named Carter County for Judge W.A. Carter of Fort Bridger [6] In 1869, the newly established legislature of the Wyoming Territory renamed the county for the Sweetwater River.
Carter Mountain (12,324 ft (3,760 m)) is in Shoshone National Forest in the U.S. state of Wyoming. [3] Carter Mountain slopes gently up from the Bighorn Basin to the east but has steep cliffs on its western face. The region is well known for large herds of bighorn sheep, pronghorn and elk. Carter Mountain, west aspect.
Added to NRHP. 1969-04-16. Fort Bridger was originally a 19th-century fur trading outpost established in 1842, on Blacks Fork of the Green River, in what is now Uinta County, Wyoming, United States. It became a vital resupply point for wagon trains on the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails.
The area now known as Park County was established as Carter County, then Sweetwater County. In 1884 it was assigned to Fremont County; this continued until 1896, when it was assigned to Big Horn County. Wyoming achieved statehood in 1890. The area of present-day Park continued as part of Big Horn County until 1909, when Park County was authorized.
Albany County: 1900 [1] Bryan: Sweetwater County: September 1868 Buckhorn 1900 Buford: Albany County: Cambria: Weston County: 1889 1928 Canyon Springs [5] Carbon: Carbon County: 1868 [3] Abandoned Carter: Uinta County: December 27, 1867 Clifton 1907: Cumberland Lincoln County: 1900 Eadsville 1891 [4] Empire: Goshen County [6] 1908 Forest City ...
Oliver Wallop, 8th Earl of Portsmouth (grandfather) Alma mater. Yale University. Cate School. Occupation. cattle rancher. Malcolm Wallop (February 27, 1933 – September 14, 2011) was an American rancher and politician. He served as a United States Senator from Wyoming from 1977 to 1995. [1] He was a member of the Republican Party.