Fremont County is a county in Wyoming, United States, home to Gannett Peak, the state’s highest point, and much of the Wind River Range. It had a population of 39,234 at the 2020 census and covers 9,266 square miles (24,000 km2) centred near 43°03′N 108°43′W, in the west-central part of the state.<\/p>\n
Lander is the county seat, and its postal code is 82520. The county holds two cities, four towns and roughly three dozen unincorporated communities and census-designated places, on Mountain time. The eastern half of the county lies within the Wind River Indian Reservation, home to the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes.<\/p>\n
Fremont County has two incorporated cities — Riverton, the largest city, and Lander, the county seat — plus four incorporated towns (Dubois, Hudson, Pavillion, Shoshoni). The rest of the list is census-designated places on the Wind River Indian Reservation and unincorporated ranch, mining and rail communities scattered across the county’s open range. “CDP” marks a census-designated place with its own Census Bureau population count; “Unincorp.” marks a named place with no incorporated government and no separate census count.<\/p>\n
| Place<\/th>\n | Type<\/th>\n | Pop.<\/th>\n | ZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riverton<\/td>\n | City<\/td>\n | 10,682<\/td>\n | 82501<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Lander<\/td>\n | City · seat<\/td>\n | 7,546<\/td>\n | 82520<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Dubois<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Shoshoni<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Hudson<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Pavillion<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Fort Washakie<\/td>\n | CDP<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Ethete<\/td>\n | CDP<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Arapahoe<\/td>\n | CDP<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Jeffrey City<\/td>\n | CDP<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Crowheart<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Kinnear<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Midvale<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Atlantic City<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| South Pass City<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Lost Cabin<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Lysite<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Moneta<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Sand Draw<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Boysen<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Burris<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Bonneville<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Milford<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Morton<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Saint Stephens<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Wind River<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Wyopo<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| DuNoir<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Boulder Flats<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Sweetwater Station<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Sweetwater Crossing<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Willow Creek<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Johnstown<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Miners Delight<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Bain Place<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Collins Place<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Erramouspe Place<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Kotey Place<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Snyder Place<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n Atlantic City and South Pass City are both surviving gold-rush camps from the 1867–1870s South Pass boom, three miles apart in the Wind River Range foothills — not to be confused with the New Jersey or California places of the same names. Jeffrey City was built as a company town for the Western Nuclear uranium mine in the 1950s and nearly emptied out when the mine closed in the 1980s; it is now a census-designated place with only a small year-round population.<\/p>\n ZIP Codes<\/h2>\nEach incorporated town in the county — Dubois, Hudson, Pavillion and Shoshoni — carries its own ZIP code, and reservation communities such as Fort Washakie and Ethete are served by post offices of their own; those codes are not confirmed here and are omitted rather than guessed.<\/p>\n Geography<\/h2>\nFremont County is Wyoming’s second-largest county by area. Its western third climbs into the Wind River Range, where Gannett Peak reaches 13,804 feet — the highest point in Wyoming and in the Central Rocky Mountains — and holds the largest glaciers in the American Rockies. The Wind River flows northwest to southeast through the county past Dubois, Crowheart and Riverton before turning north toward the Bighorn Basin. Parts of the Bridger–Teton and Shoshone National Forests lie within the county, and a stretch of the historic Oregon Trail crosses its southern end near South Pass, the lowest crossing of the Continental Divide used by 19th-century wagon trains.<\/p>\n Fremont County borders Park County<\/a> to the north, Hot Springs County<\/a> to the northeast, Natrona County<\/a> to the east, Sweetwater County<\/a> to the south, Sublette County<\/a> to the west and Teton County<\/a> to the northwest.<\/p>\n Fremont County had 39,234 residents at the 2020 census, the fifth-highest county population in Wyoming. Riverton, with 10,682 people, is the county’s largest community; Lander, the seat, has 7,546. About one in five county residents identifies as American Indian or Alaska Native, reflecting the Wind River Indian Reservation’s Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho population. Median household income in the county runs below the Wyoming median of $72,415. Population density is roughly 4.3 people per square mile of land, one of the more sparsely settled counties in the state.<\/p>\n Government, health care and education are the county’s largest employers, led by SageWest Health Care’s hospitals in Lander and Riverton and Central Wyoming College in Riverton. Ranching and farming remain central to the local economy on the county’s open range, and oil and natural gas production continues around the Beaver Creek and Sand Draw fields. Tourism is significant on the county’s western edge, where Dubois and the Wind River Range serve as a gateway toward Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks. Fremont County was once a major U.S. uranium-mining center, centered on Jeffrey City, though that industry has been dormant since the 1980s.<\/p>\n Fremont County was organized on March 5, 1884, carved from Sweetwater County, and named after John C. Frémont, the explorer, army officer and 1856 Republican presidential candidate who led survey expeditions through the region in the 1840s. The Wind River Indian Reservation was established by the 1868 Fort Bridger Treaty for the Eastern Shoshone under Chief Washakie; the Northern Arapaho were relocated onto the same reservation in 1878, and the two tribes share it today. South Pass, in the county’s south, was the principal route through the Rocky Mountains for Oregon Trail, California Trail and Mormon Trail emigrants in the mid-1800s, and the 1867 discovery of gold near South Pass City briefly made it Wyoming Territory’s largest town.<\/p>\n U.S. Route 26\/287 runs northwest–southeast through the county linking Riverton, Lander and Dubois; U.S. Route 20\/26 and Wyoming Highway 789 serve the eastern side toward Shoshoni and Thermopolis.<\/p>\n Central Wyoming Regional Airport (RIW) in Riverton is the county’s commercial airport, with connecting flights to Denver.<\/p>\n Where is Fremont County, Wyoming?<\/strong> What is the population of Fremont County?<\/strong> How big is Fremont County?<\/strong> What is the county seat of Fremont County?<\/strong> How many towns are in Fremont County?<\/strong> What ZIP codes are in Fremont County?<\/strong> |