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Sweetwater County, Wyoming

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

—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
37historic places
—earliest paper
1867formed
42,272pop. 2020
12cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 37 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1968; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Rock Springs, Green River, Eden.

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 Sweetwater titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

22 of 37 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

37 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Araphoe and Lost Creek Site (48SW4882)Hadsell CabinSite1986
Bairoil Town HallBairoil Dr.Building2015
City HallRock SpringsBuilding1980
Downtown Rock Springs Historic DistrictRock SpringsDistrict1994
Downtown Rock Springs Historic District (Boundary Increase)Rock SpringsDistrict2023
Dug Springs Station SiteRock SpringsSite1977
ETD Bridge over Green RiverFontenelleStructure1985
ETR Big Island BridgeGreen RiverStructure1985
Eden-Farson SiteEdenSite2014
Eldon-Wall Terrace Site (48SW4320)WestvacoSite1985
Expedition Island NHLGreen RiverSite1968
Finley Site, TheEdenSite2010
First National Bank BuildingRock SpringsBuilding1980
Granger StationGrangerSite1970
Gras HouseRock SpringsBuilding1986
Green River Downtown Historic DistrictGreen RiverDistrict2009
Laclede Station RuinRock SpringsSite1978
Lucerne Valley Archaeological DistrictWashamDistrict2021
Morris HouseGreen RiverBuilding2023
Natural Corrals Archeological Site (48SW336)South SuperiorSite1987
Our Lady Sorrows Catholic ChurchRock SpringsBuilding1997
Outlaw InnRock SpringsBuilding2018
Parting of the WaysFarsonSite1976
Point of Rocks Stage StationRock SpringsSite1970
Red RockRawlinsSite1978
Reliance School and GymnasiumRelianceBuilding1988
Reliance TippleRelianceBuilding1991
Rock Springs Elks' Lodge No. 624Rock SpringsBuilding1993
Saints Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church and RectoryRock SpringsBuilding2015
Slovenski DomRock SpringsBuilding1997
South Superior Union HallSouth SuperiorBuilding1983
Stewart, Elinore Pruitt, HomesteadMcKinnonBuilding1985
Sweetwater BreweryGreen RiverBuilding1982
Taliaferro HouseRock SpringsBuilding1998
Tolar Petroglyph SitePoint of RocksSite2014
US Post Office-Green RiverGreen RiverBuilding1997
Wardell Court Historic Residential DistrictRock SpringsDistrict1997

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Sweetwater was formed in 1867 (1867-12-27) from Laramie.

CARTER (now SWEETWATER) created by Dakota Territory from LARAMIE; included a small area of present Montana. CARTER not fully organized, attached to LARAMIE "for representative and judicial purposes."

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Sweetwater County population from 1870 to 2020 (Census historical series).

44k23k1,9161870188019201950196020002020
1870188019001920194019501960198020002020
1,9162,5618,45513,64019,40722,01717,92041,72337,61342,272

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

12 cemeteries and 4 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 12 of 12 listed
NameLatLon
Bryan Cemetery41.57524-109.68652
Burntfork Cemetery41.038-109.99042
Charles Hatch Gravesite42.08478-109.47144
Eden Valley Cemetery42.10354-109.4501
Granger Municipal Cemetery41.59179-109.96769
McKinnon Cemetery41.0305-109.95234
Mountain View Cemetery41.75126-108.95799
Rest Haven Memorial Gardens41.65069-109.25966
Riverview Cemetery41.53357-109.4579
Rock Springs Cemetery41.57621-109.21267
Terry Ranch Cemetery41.01975-109.88993
Widdop Cemetery41.01806-110.01232
Historical populated places — 4 of 4
NameLatLon
Dines41.72607-109.17262
Fort LaClede41.41524-108.38927
Squaw Hollow41.16357-109.56042
Winton41.74719-109.16735

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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