Sweetwater County Wyoming




was named for the river whose headwaters are in the Wind River Mountains.  Sweetwater County was created 27 December 1867 and first named Carter County—about 20 years before the Roberts family came to Wyoming.  The name was changed to Sweetwater by the Legislative Assembly in 1869.*



*Source:  Dobler, Lavinia, “I Didn’t Know That About Wyoming”, Wolverine Gallery, Basin, Wyoming, 1984.

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