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Platte County, Wyoming
Platte County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Wheatland
Year Organized: 1911
Square Miles: 2,111
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Court House: P.O. Box 728
County Courthouse
Wheatland, WY 82201-0728
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Named: Takes its name from the North Platte River. Platte from the French "plate", meaning "dull" or "shallow", a term singularly applicable to this stream.
State & County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Platte County was organized in 1911.
Neighboring Counties:
- Niobrara County (northeast)
- Goshen County (east)
- Laramie County (south)
- Albany County (west)
- Converse County (northwest)
Cities:
| - Chugwater |
town |
Incorporated Area |
| - Glendo |
town |
Incorporated Area |
| - Guernsey |
town |
Incorporated Area |
| - Hartville |
town |
Incorporated Area |
| - Wheatland (County Seat) |
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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