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Big Horn County, Wyoming

Big Horn County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

 

County Seat: Basin
Year Organized: 1896
Square Miles: 3,159
 
Court House:
420 West C Street, PO Box 31
County Courthouse
Basin, WY 82410-0000

 

Named: Named for the Big Horn or Rocky Mountain sheep, which were numerous in that part of the country in the early days.

 

 

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History

Big Horn County was organized in 1896.

 

Neighboring Counties:
  • Park County, Wyoming - west
  • Washakie County, Wyoming - south
  • Johnson County, Wyoming - east
  • Sheridan County, Wyoming - east
  • Big Horn County, Montana - north
  • Carbon County, Montana - north
     
Cities:
- Basin (County Seat) town Incorporated Area
- Burlington town Incorporated Area
- Byron town Incorporated Area
- Cowley town Incorporated Area
- Deaver town Incorporated Area
- Greybull town Incorporated Area
- Lovell town Incorporated Area
- Manderson town Incorporated Area
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we’ve given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the “characteristic features of our country!”

But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn’t the only reason to explore counties’ role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.

Today’s counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990’s political slogan “Think globally, act locally.”

 

 

 

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