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There are 23 counties in the state of Wyoming. There were originally five counties in the Wyoming Territory: Laramie and Carter, established in 1867; Carbon and Albany established in 1868; and Uinta, an annexed portion of Utah and Idaho, extending from Montana (including Yellowstone Park) to the Wyoming-Utah boundary. On July 10, 1890, Wyoming was admitted to the Union with thirteen counties.

Uinta County, Wyoming

Uinta County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Evanston
Year Organized: 1869
Square Miles: 2,088

Court House:

225 9th Street
County Courthouse
Evanston, WY 82930-3415

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Named for the Uintah Mountains, which in turn were named for the Uintah Indians.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

Uinta County was organized in 1869.

The Territory of Wyoming was organized by Act of Congress in the year 1868, with the boundaries of the present state. As originally divided, its four counties, extending from Montana on the north to the Colorado and Utah lines on the south, were Laramie, Albany, Carbon and Carter. In its derivation Carter County stood alone among not only the counties of Wyoming but of the nation as well, for it was composed of portions of the three great western accessions of the United States. That part northeast of the Shoshone range came from the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. From these mountains to the 42nd parallel is a tract acquired from the Oregon Territory, to which the claim of the United States was definitely established in 1846. The land south of this came to us from the Mexican Cession of 1848. The territories of Utah, organized in 1850; Dakota, in 1861, and Idaho, in 1863, contributed to the formation of Carter County. From the time of the organization of the Territory of Utah in 1850 to the establishment of our territorial government, the southern part was known as Green River County, Utah.

At the meeting of the first territorial legislature in 1869 Carter County was divided into Sweetwater and Uinta Counties. The original Uinta County was about fifty by two hundred and eighty miles in size. Within it lay nearly all of the Yellowstone National Park.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 2,088 square miles (5,407 km²), of which, 2,082 square miles (5,391 km²) of it is land and 6 square miles (15 km²) of it (0.28%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Lincoln County (north)
Sweetwater County (east)
Summit County, Utah (south)
Rich County, Utah (northwest)

Cities and Towns:

- Bear River	town	Incorporated Area
- Evanston (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Lyman	town	Incorporated Area
- Mountain View	town	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

History of Uinta County, Wyoming

County Resource Guide

Counties: US Map

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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