Goshen County, Wyoming

Goshen County, Wyoming
Location in the U.S. state of Wyoming
Wyoming's location in the U.S.
Founded	1913
Seat	Torrington
Largest city	Torrington
Area
• Total	2,232 sq mi (5,781 km2)
• Land	2,225 sq mi (5,763 km2)
• Water	6.8 sq mi (18 km2), 0.3%
Population (est.)
• (2015)	13,383
• Density	6.0/sq mi (2/km²)
Congressional district	At-large
Time zone	Mountain: UTC-7/-6

Goshen County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wyoming. As of the 2010 census, the population was 13,249. Its county seat is Torrington. The eastern boundary of the County borders the Nebraska state line.

Goshen County produces more cattle annually than any other Wyoming county. In 1997, the County had 688 farms and ranches averaging 1,840 acres. By 2007, there were 665 farms and ranches in the county.

Goshen County was created on February 21, 1911 with land given up by Laramie County. It was organized in 1913. Long before it was settled, or became Goshen County, the area had been part of territories, at one time or another, claimed by: Spain, France, Great Britain, Mexico, and the Republic of Texas. The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 permanently established the claim of the United States to the area.

By the 1820s, a route along the North Platte River had become a route for fur traders and trappers bound for the Rocky Mountains. And, in the 1840s and 1850s, the same route functioned as part of the route for early pioneers following the historic Oregon Trail or Mormon Trail westward to Oregon, California or Utah. By the late 1850s, it was the route for regularly scheduled east-west stagecoaches carrying passengers and the U.S. mail, and for the short-lived Pony Express carrying mail from Missouri to California from April 1860 to November 1861. By October 1861, had been completed along the route. From September 1876 to February 1887, a north-south, Cheyenne-Deadwood stage coach line ran through the County from Cheyenne to the gold fields of the Dakota Territory.

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