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The thirteen counties of Wyoming as they appeared when statehood was achieved in 1890.

The counties of Weston and Big Horn were created by the eleventh legislative assembly in March of 1890, just before Wyoming achieved statehood that July. This map by George F. Cram of Chicago shows the new counties, bringing the total to thirteen.…

A map of the 13-county configuration which existed for nineteen years, from 1890 to 1909. The map shows the Fremont, Elkhorn, and Missouri Valley Railroad (later the Chicago Northwestern) to Casper, but short of its eventual terminus of Lander.

The eleven counties of Wyoming territory as they appeared from 1888 to 1890, when Weston and Big Horn counties were formed.

An 1881 County and Township map by S.A. Mitchell of Philadelphia. Seven counties are shown in Wyoming, the map not reflecting that the legislative assembly had changed the name of Pease Country to Johnson, two years earlier. Fort Mc Kinney is…

From an atlas produced by S. Augustus Mitchell of Philadelphia. This 1870 rendering reflects the construction of the Denver Pacific Railroad, joining the Union Pacific at Cheyenne, from the south.