Sublette County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wyoming. It is a sparsely populated rural county in western Wyoming, along the Green River. It has an area of 4,883 square miles and a population of 5,920 as of 2000. The county seat is situated in Pinedale.
Sublette County was organized in 1921.
Historically, the area was important to the fur trade, and the county itself takes its name from one of Wyoming's early fur traders, William L. Su...
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Sublette County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wyoming. It is a sparsely populated rural county in western Wyoming, along the Green River. It has an area of 4,883 square miles and a population of 5,920 as of 2000. The county seat is situated in Pinedale.
Sublette County was organized in 1921.
Historically, the area was important to the fur trade, and the county itself takes its name from one of Wyoming's early fur traders, William L. Sublette. Today the county celebrates its fur trade heritage with the Museum of the Mountain Man in Pinedale.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 4,936 square miles (12,783 km²), of which, 4,883 square miles (12,646 km²) of it is land and 53 square miles (137 km²) of it (1.08%) is water.
Although the Bridger National Forest and the Teton National Forest have been administratively combined into the Bridger-Teton National Forest, it is important to note that the county contains portions of both original forests.
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