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The depot was built by the Chicago and North Western Railway from 1906 to 1907 along a new line through central Wyoming built by the railway in 1906. The city of Riverton formed only two weeks before the railroad reached it when land in the area opened to new residents under the Homestead Act. The railroad spurred economic development in the ...
The city, founded in 1906, [5] is an incorporated entity of the state of Wyoming. The community was named Riverton because of the four rivers that meet there. [6] The town was built on land ceded from the Wind River Indian Reservation, a situation that often makes it subject to jurisdictional claims by the nearby Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes.
Wyoming's municipalities cover only 0.3% of the state's land mass but are home to 68.3% of its population. [ 2 ] Wyoming's most populous municipality is the capital city Cheyenne with 65,132 residents, [ 1 ] and the largest municipality by land area is Casper , which spans 26.9 sq mi (70 km 2 ), while the smallest municipality in both ...
This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of Wyoming, sorted by type and name. In 2021, Wyoming had a total summer capacity of 10,096 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 46,017 GWh in 2022. [ 2 ]
Wind River Transportation Authority, or WRTA, is the primary provider of mass transportation in Fremont County, Wyoming with two routes serving the region. As of 2019, the system provided 60,026 rides over 15,974 annual vehicle revenue hours with eight buses and six paratransit vehicles. [1]
Order 2004-7-16 (July 20, 2004): selects Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd., to provide essential air service with 19-passenger B1900D aircraft at Laramie, Riverton, Rock Springs, and Worland, Wyoming, for two years for annual subsidy rates of $397,400, $394,046, $390,488, and $797,844, respectively.
Nearing 34.5 miles, the western terminus of Wyoming Highway 136 (Gas Hills Road) is intersected which travels east towards the Gas Hills Mining District. Just after meeting WYO 136, Highway 135 crosses the Little Wind River and reaches its northern terminus at Wyoming Highway 789 just south of Riverton.
It is 8 miles (13 km) from the center of Arapahoe (at the Arapahoe School) northeast to the center of Riverton, via Rendezvous Road. According to the United States Census Bureau , the Arapahoe CDP has a total area of 27.8 square miles (72.1 km 2 ), of which 27.6 square miles (71.6 km 2 ) is land and 0.2 square miles (0.5 km 2 ), or 0.68%, is water.