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Goshen County, Wyoming

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

8historic places

—earliest paper

1911formed

12,498pop. 2020

10cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 8 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 2 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Fort Laramie, Guernsey, Torrington.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Wyoming is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Goshen titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

5 of 8 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

8 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Cheyenne-Black Hills Stage Route and Rawhide Buttes and Running Water Stage Stations	Lusk	District	1969
Fort Laramie National Historic Site	Fort Laramie	District	1966
Fort Laramie Three-Mile Hog Ranch	Fort Laramie	Building	1975
Hell Gap Paleoindian Site (48GO305) NHL	Guernsey
Hell Gap Paleoindian Site (48GO305) NHL	Guernsey
Jay Em Historic District	Jay Em	District	1984
South Torrington Union Pacific Depot	Torrington	Building	1974
US Post Office-Torrington Main	Torrington	Building	1987

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Goshen was formed in 1911 (1911-02-21) from Laramie.

GOSHEN created from LARAMIE. GOSHEN not fully organized, attached to LARAMIE "for judicial, revenue and elective purposes." Technically, GOSHEN had been created on 9 February 1911, but the mapping reflects the intent of the legislature.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Goshen County population from 1920 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
8,064	12,207	12,634	11,941	12,040	12,538	12,498

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Fort Laramie National Historic Site	Park unit	20.7 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

10 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 10 of 10 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Forest Mound Cemetery	42.4593	-104.36806
Fort Laramie Cemetery	42.20861	-104.55163
Grandview Cemetery	41.9007	-104.34954
Hillcrest Cemetery	42.14026	-104.33344
La Grange Cemetery	41.63764	-104.14654
Lingle Cemetery	42.13922	-104.33788
Mary Homsley Burial Site	42.22212	-104.56643
Prairie Center Cemetery	42.47729	-104.20257
Red Cloud Cemetery	42.38732	-104.43897
Valley View Cemetery	42.07769	-104.18051

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Trelona	41.77275	-104.43302

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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