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3rd Wyoming State Legislature [Wikidata] 1895 4th Wyoming State Legislature [Wikidata] 1897 5th Wyoming State Legislature [Wikidata] 1899 6th Wyoming State Legislature [Wikidata] 1901 7th Wyoming State Legislature [Wikidata] 1903 8th Wyoming State Legislature [Wikidata] 1905 9th Wyoming State Legislature [Wikidata] 1907
The mineral extraction industry, including oil and gas, is the main driver of the Wyoming economy, accounting for more than three-fifths of the state's revenues. [1] [2] Travel and tourism is the second-largest sector in the state, providing $3.3 billion to the state's economy, with $170 million in tax revenues in 2015, along with 32,000 jobs. [3]
Operates original Genesee and Wyoming Railroad and Dansville and Mount Morris Railroad. Rockdale, Sandow and Southern Railroad [83] RSS: III: Acquired - 2012 a: 4 mi (6.4 km) St-Laurent et Atlantique Railroad [84] SLQ: III: Acquired - 2002: 95 mi (153 km) St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad [85] SLR: III: Acquired - 2002: 143 mi (230 km)
There are approximately 2,000 miles (3,200 km) of rail in Wyoming, 100 miles (160 km) which are state-owned. Wyoming has nine primary service airports. [2] Wyoming has one of the nation's lowest fuel tax rates at 14 cents per gallon, which generates approximately $6.65 million per year. [3]
The U.S. state of Wyoming first required its residents to register their motor vehicles and display license plates in 1913. As of 2024, plates are issued and regulated by the Wyoming Department of Transportation through its Motor Vehicle Services division. Wyoming license plates have included an image of a Bucking Horse and Rider since 1936.
The Department of Revenue is a department of the Wyoming state government responsible for the collection of mineral and excise taxes as well as valuing property and the wholesale distribution of alcoholic beverages and enforcement of liquor laws. Personal or corporate income taxes are not levied.
Sweetwater River (a tributary of the North Platte River), which flows through the state. (Original name, Carter County, named for sutler William Alexander Carter.) [10] 41,249: 10,426 sq mi (27,003 km 2) Teton County: 039: Jackson: 1921: Part of Lincoln County. Teton Range, a small mountain range of the Rocky Mountains at the Wyoming–Idaho ...
The 2024 Wyoming House of Representatives election saw victories in primaries for hard-right Republican members of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus, increasing their seat share from twenty-eight to thirty-four, a simple majority in the sixty-two seat chamber, in what was the first takeover of any legislature by a state Freedom Caucus.