{"id":8973,"date":"2023-10-11T10:03:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T10:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/?p=8973"},"modified":"2026-08-22T17:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T17:16:17","slug":"sublette-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/sublette-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Sublette County, Wyoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sublette County is a county in Wyoming, United States, on the west slope of the Wind River and Wyoming ranges. It had a population of 8,728 at the 2020 census and covers 4,936 square miles (12,780 km2) centred near 42\u00b046\u2032N 109\u00b055\u2032W.<\/p>\n<p>Pinedale is the county seat, and its postal code is 82941. The county has three incorporated towns (Pinedale, Big Piney and Marbleton), four census-designated places, and a scatter of unincorporated communities and summer-home areas. Sublette County observes Mountain Time.<\/p>\n<h2>Towns &amp; Villages in Sublette County<\/h2>\n<p>The county lists three incorporated towns, four census-designated places (CDPs), and several smaller unincorporated communities. Big Piney and Marbleton sit five miles apart along US-189 and share a single ZIP code.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tv-table-scroll\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Place<\/th>\n<th>Type<\/th>\n<th>Pop.<\/th>\n<th>ZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Pinedale<\/td>\n<td>Town &middot; seat<\/td>\n<td>2,005<\/td>\n<td>82941<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Marbleton<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>861<\/td>\n<td>83113<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Big Piney<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>395<\/td>\n<td>83113<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cora<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>82925<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Daniel<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>83115<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Boulder<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>82923<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Bondurant<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>82922<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Calpet<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Big Sandy<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>New Fork<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Merna<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Bronx<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Leckie<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Daniel Junction<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Elkhorn Junction<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Halfway<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sylvan Bay Summer Home Area<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Temple Creek Summer Home Area<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Marbleton and Big Piney functioned for decades as one working community before their separate incorporations; they still share the 83113 ZIP and a single school district.<\/p>\n<h2>ZIP Codes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>82941 &mdash; Pinedale (also serves the eastern side of the county toward the Wind River Range)<\/li>\n<li>83113 &mdash; Big Piney and Marbleton<\/li>\n<li>82923 &mdash; Boulder<\/li>\n<li>82922 &mdash; Bondurant<\/li>\n<li>82925 &mdash; Cora<\/li>\n<li>83115 &mdash; Daniel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Smaller unincorporated spots such as Calpet, Big Sandy and New Fork use the ZIP code of their nearest post-office town rather than a code of their own.<\/p>\n<h2>Geography<\/h2>\n<p>Sublette County occupies a broad high valley &mdash; the upper Green River Basin &mdash; framed by the Wind River Range to the east, the Wyoming Range to the west and the Gros Ventre Range to the north near the Bridger-Teton National Forest boundary. The Green River rises in the Wind River Range and flows south through the county, gathering the New Fork River near the town of the same name. Elevations run from roughly 6,800 feet in the valley floor to over 13,000 feet at Gannett Peak&#8217;s neighboring summits on the county&#8217;s eastern edge. Much of the county&#8217;s land is public: national forest, BLM range and the Upper Green River cattle drift make it one of the least densely populated counties in the Lower 48.<\/p>\n<p>Sublette County borders Teton County to the north (<a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/teton-county-wyoming\/\">Teton County<\/a>), Fremont County to the east (<a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/fremont-county-wyoming\/\">Fremont County<\/a>), Sweetwater County to the southeast (<a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/sweetwater-county\/\">Sweetwater County<\/a>), and Lincoln County to the southwest (<a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/lincoln-county-wyoming\/\">Lincoln County<\/a>).<\/p>\n<h2>Demographics<\/h2>\n<p>Sublette County&#8217;s population was 8,728 at the 2020 census, spread across 4,887 square miles of land &mdash; a density of about 1.8 people per square mile. Pinedale, with 2,005 residents, and Marbleton, with 861, are the county&#8217;s two largest communities; together they hold roughly a third of the county&#8217;s people. The Wyoming median household income is $72,415; Sublette County&#8217;s own energy-sector wages have historically pushed local pay above that state figure, though a county-level ACS estimate is not cited here. Residents are overwhelmingly white (87.7%) with a Hispanic and Latino population of 7.3%, and a median age of 41.5.<\/p>\n<h2>Economy &amp; Local Life<\/h2>\n<p>Natural gas development in the Jonah Field and Pinedale Anticline, both just south of Pinedale, has been the county&#8217;s dominant economic driver since the early 2000s, alongside cattle ranching that dates to the county&#8217;s founding. Big Piney, the county&#8217;s oldest town, was built on cattle money brought north from Nevada in 1879 and still calls itself the coldest spot in the Lower 48 some winters. Pinedale hosts the Museum of the Mountain Man, marking the county&#8217;s fur-trade history and the annual Green River Rendezvous re-enactment, and serves as the western gateway to the Wind River Range&#8217;s Bridger Wilderness trailheads.<\/p>\n<h2>History<\/h2>\n<p>Sublette County was created on February 15, 1921, from land split off Fremont and Lincoln counties, and organized in 1923. It is named for William Lewis Sublette, an early-19th-century fur trader and mountain man who worked the upper Green River during the fur-trade rendezvous era of the 1820s and 1830s. Early-20th-century settlement brought cattle ranchers and homesteaders, including a number of first-generation immigrant families from England and Germany, into the Green River valley around Pinedale, Boulder and Big Piney.<\/p>\n<h2>Getting There<\/h2>\n<p>US Highway 191 runs the length of the county north\u2013south through Pinedale, connecting to US-189 south of Marbleton and Big Piney; Wyoming Highway 352 follows the Green River toward Cora and Boulder.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jackson, Wyoming &mdash; 77 miles north via US-191<\/li>\n<li>Rock Springs, Wyoming &mdash; 100 miles south via US-191<\/li>\n<li>Big Piney &mdash; 32 miles southwest of Pinedale via US-191\/189<\/li>\n<li>Riverton, Wyoming &mdash; 90 miles east via US-191\/26<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pinedale has its own general-aviation airport (Ralph Wenz Field); the nearest commercial airport is Jackson Hole Airport, about 80 miles north.<\/p>\n<h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Where is Sublette County?<\/strong><br \/>It is in western Wyoming, in the upper Green River Basin between the Wind River Range and the Wyoming Range.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the population of Sublette County?<\/strong><br \/>8,728 people at the 2020 census.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How big is Sublette County?<\/strong><br \/>4,936 square miles (12,780 km2), of which 4,887 square miles is land.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the county seat of Sublette County?<\/strong><br \/>Pinedale is the county seat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many towns are in Sublette County?<\/strong><br \/>Three incorporated towns &mdash; Pinedale, Marbleton and Big Piney &mdash; plus four census-designated places and several unincorporated communities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What ZIP codes are in Sublette County?<\/strong><br \/>82941 (Pinedale), 83113 (Big Piney\/Marbleton), 82923 (Boulder), 82922 (Bondurant), 82925 (Cora) and 83115 (Daniel).<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Sublette County known for?<\/strong><br \/>Natural-gas development on the Pinedale Anticline and Jonah Field, cattle ranching, and access to the Wind River Range&#8217;s Bridger Wilderness.<\/p>\n<p>More counties in this state: <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/category\/wyoming\/\">Towns and villages in Wyoming<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sublette County is a county in Wyoming, United States, on the west slope of the Wind River and Wyoming ranges. It had a population of 8,728 at the 2020 census and covers 4,936 square miles (12,780 km2) centred near 42\u00b046\u2032N 109\u00b055\u2032W. Pinedale is the county seat, and its postal code is 82941. 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