Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A map of the counties and capital city of Wyoming. The U.S. state of Wyoming lies in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States and has a varied geography. It is bordered by Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Idaho to the west, Utah to the southwest, and Colorado to the south.
Wyoming – U.S. state in the mountain region of the Western United States. The western two thirds of the state is covered mostly with the mountain ranges and rangelands in the foothills of the Eastern Rocky Mountains , while the eastern third of the state is high elevation prairie known as the High Plains .
Teton Range, a small mountain range of the Rocky Mountains at the Wyoming–Idaho state line 23,232: 4,008 sq mi (10,381 km 2) Uinta County: 041: Evanston: 1869: One of the original five counties. The Uinta Mountains, named in turn after the Uintah Native American people. 20,745: 2,082 sq mi (5,392 km 2) Washakie County: 043: Worland: 1911 ...
Land in Wyoming that is related to agriculture takes up about 55 percent of the total land in Wyoming [2] In 2001, agriculture profits were up to $185.6 million in net farm income. This net income of $185.6 million sustained about 12,345 jobs [ 2 ] “The State also ranks number 1 in terms of average size of agriculture enterprises and number 8 ...
Gladstone is a city in Delta County in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.First settled in 1877, Gladstone's original name was Minnewasca. [4] The population was 5,257 according to the 2020 census, The U.S. Highways 2 and 41 run concurrently through the city, connecting it to various other communities in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
There are significant variations regionally; the federal government owns 61.3% of the land area in Alaska, 46.4% of the land area in the 11 contiguous Western states; and 4.2% of the land area of other states. The state with the highest percentage of land held by the federal government is Nevada (80.1%); the states with the lowest percentage of ...
Before the late 19th century, the area around the future site of Wheatland was a flat, arid landscape with desert-like vegetation. In 1883 local rancher and judge Joseph M. Carey, along with Horace Plunkett, John Hoyt, Morton Post, Francis E. Warren, William Irvine, and Andrew Gilchrist, established the Wyoming Development Company.
Historical international territory in the present State of Wyoming: Oregon Country, 1818–1846 Provisional Government of Oregon (extralegal), 1843–1849; Oregon Treaty of 1846; Historical territorial claims of Mexico in the present State of Wyoming: Santa Fé de Nuevo México, 1821–1848; Gran Cuenca, 1821–1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ...