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Carbon County, Wyoming
Carbon County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Rawlins
Year Organized: 1868
Square Miles: 7,897
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Court House: P.O. Box 6
County Courthouse
Rawlins, WY 82301-0006
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Named: Named for the vast coal beds in the county.
State & County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Established in 1868 as a county in the Dakota Territory, Carbon County has a rich history of cattle, sheep, mining, and railroads.
Prior to that, about 3,400 sq miles in the center of Carbon County were once part of the Republic of Texas (1835-1845) and part of the State of Texas until 1852 when the northern most part of that state was ceded to the Federal Government. This area is defined by the 42nd parallel on the north, and
straight lines south from there to the headwaters of the Arkansas river on the east and the headwaters of the Rio Grande on the west. The documents defining that area include the Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819, the 1824 Constitution of Mexico, and the 1845 "Joint Resolution for the Admission of the State
of Texas into the Union".
Neighboring Counties:
- Sweetwater County, Wyoming - west
- Fremont County, Wyoming - northwest
- Natrona County, Wyoming - north
- Converse County, Wyoming - northeast
- Albany County, Wyoming - east
- Jackson County, Colorado - southeast
- Routt County, Colorado - south
- Moffat County, Colorado - southwest
Cities:
| - Baggs |
town |
Incorporated Area |
| - Casper |
city |
Incorporated Area |
| - Dixon |
town |
Incorporated Area |
| - Elk Mountain |
town |
Incorporated Area |
| - Grand Encampment |
town |
Incorporated Area |
| - Hanna |
town |
Incorporated Area |
| - Medicine Bow |
town |
Incorporated Area |
| - Rawlins (County Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
| - Riverside |
town |
Incorporated Area |
| - Saratoga |
town |
Incorporated Area |
| - Sinclair |
town |
Incorporated Area |
County Resources:
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County Resource Guide
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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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Penn Foster High School
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