- Sweetwater County Timeline Interactive timeline showing historic events in the county.
- 1850 Census, what is now Wyoming was enumerated as part of the Utah Territoy "Green River Pct". No census was taken of Fort Laramie.
- 1860 Census, what is now Wyoming was enumerated as either part of Nebraska Territory or part of Utah Territory.
- 1869 Wyoming Territorial Census
- Albany county or download as .csv
- Carbon county or download as .csv
- Carter (Sweetwater) county or download as .csv. Includes Uinta county. Missing from film are lines 1-25 for Hallville and lines 367-393 for unknown locality in Uinta county. The majority of the census enumerated South Pass City and vicinity. Green River is on lines A1-A101. Calamity Jane is enumerated in Piedmont, Uinta county on line 144. Esther Hobart Morris is enumerated on line C196.
- Laramie county or download as .csv
- Sweetwater County School Censuses
- Naturalization Index or as .csv Transcription of the index held at the Sweetwater County Clerk of District Court. Records run from 1881 to 1967. Records in Index 1 have been sent to Wyoming State Archives and are not available in Green River. Records in Index 2 are available for free, in person, or for a small fee if requested from them.
- Poll Book 1882 or as .csv Poll Book of a Special election held 29 Apr 1882 for the office of Justice of the Peace in Green River.
- Wyoming Blue Books at Wyoming State Archives:
Vol 1 European Exploration to 1890, including acquisition of land, territorial years and statehood.
Vol 2 1890 to 1943, including the early days of statehood and a history of Wyoming's counties.
Vol 3 1943 to 1974, including a study of equality in the Equality State.
Vol 4 1974 to 1990, including sections on government, education, economy, culture, and the Wind River Reservation.
Vol 5 1991 to 2007, including recent developments in Wyoming's history.
- Wyoming Biography Database at UW- Index to books that contain biographical profiles of Wyoming people.
- Wyoming Forts of the Old West List of forts in Wyoming. Camp Augur/Camp Brown (later Fort Washakie), and Camp Stambaugh were within Sweetwater county at the time of their establishment.
- Animated Map of Wyoming Animated map showing county boundary changes in Wyoming 1848-1965.
- US Genweb Archives- Census transcriptions, biographies, civil war pensioners, 1904 list of physicians, Eden Cemetery information.
- Wyoming Newspaper Project- Wyoming newspapers converted from microfilm covering 1849-1922. Pages have been keyworded and all papers are searchable. The collection includes Rock Springs papers from 1892 to 1921 and Green River papers from 1903 to 1921.
- Utah Digital Newspapers- Major stories in southwest Wyoming often made the Salt Lake papers. Various papers are indexed from the 1850's to the 1970's.
- Wyoming Tales and Trails- Photos and history of Wyoming, there are pages for Green River, Rock Springs and Superior.
- American Heritage Center at U of W- Digitized, searchable index of photos, papers and audio. There are some photos of Green River schoolchildren included in this collection.
- New Studio Index- Index of New Studio's photographic holdings in Excel format. Images are of people, places and organizations in Sweetwater county from 1902-1962. The index is taken from their original hand written registers. Many individuals are listed by name.
- Sweetwater County Historical Museum- Extensive archives of historic photographs, records, documents, and publications.
- Sweetwater County Libraries- Polk directories, microfilm of Green River and Rock Springs newspapers and High School yearbooks. Rock Springs newspapers from Nov 1899 to Aug 1902 are missing from the film.
- Polk directories at the Rock Springs library: 1934-35, 1939-40, 1944, 1950, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964-66, 1968-72, 1974-79, 1981-85, 1988, 1990-97, 1999-2007, 2009-18.
- Polk directories at the Sweetwater County (Green River) library: 1931-32, 1937, 1944, 1950, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964-66, 1968-72, 1974-79, 1981-85, 1987-88, 1990-2007, 2009-2014.
- Wyoming State Business Directories at the Rock Springs library: 1931, 1953-4, 1955.
- Wyoming State Business Directories at the Sweetwater County (Green River) library: 1904, 1908-9, 1912-13, 1914, 1916-32, 1937, 1939-42, 1950, 1953-55.
- Rock Springs High School Yearbooks at the Rock Springs Library: 1912, 1921-23, 1926, 1929, 1931-33, 1935-37, 1939-2017. Reliance High School: 1948, 1954, 1956-59. Superior High School: 1935. Western Wyoming Community College: 1964-65, 1971-73.
- Rock Springs Historical Museum
- Polk directories at the Rock Springs Historical Museum: 1934-35, 1937, 1939-40, 1950, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1965-66, 1968-69, 1970, 1972, 1975, 1981, 1983-85, 1988, 1990-99, 2000-07, 2009-2010.
- Rock Springs High School Yearbooks at the Rock Springs Historical Museum:
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Superior High School: 1937-38, 1940-42, 1944-47, 1949-50, 1952-57, 1959.
Reliance High School:
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Bairoil: 1959.
Wamsutter: 1974, 1976-77.
Western Wyoming Community College: 1961, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1973.
- Union Pacific Coal Company Employee Magazines at the Rock Springs Historical Museum:
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- LDS Family Search Center- Search for and request films from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Located at 2055 Edgar, Rock Springs, 307-362-8062. Open Tuesday and Wednesday 9:30 a.m. to noon and on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
- BLM General Land Office Records- Search for land patents by location, name or land description.
- Wyoming State Archives Map Collection- Historical maps of Wyoming.
- Community Treasures of Green River 2005 by Mary Humstone, University of Wyoming, 103 pages. Extensive coverage of historic Green River buildings.
- Superior people Extracted from the book Superior and South Superior by Frank Prevedel and the Sweetwater County Historial Museum, a listing of people having a photograph in the book. This book is also available for borrowing through the Sweetwater County Library.
- Superior Coal Mines Historic American Engineering Record as a pdf at the Library of Congress.
- Sanborn Maps at the Library of Congress
- Ramsay Family Photos
- Social Life in Rock Springs
- From the Pilot Butte DAR Chapter's archives. A brief description of social life in early day Rock Springs.
- Letters of a Woman Homesteader
- Free ebook, also available free on amazon as kindle. After deciding that city life as a laundress wasn't for her, Elinore Pruitt, a young widowed mother, accepted an offer to assist with a ranch in Wyoming, work that she found exceedingly more rewarding. In this delightful collection of letters, she describes these experiences to her former employer, Mrs. Coney.
- John Jarvie of Brown's Park
- Free online book from the BLM. Prepared in 1980, by William L. Tennent, this monograph presents a biography of John Jarvie (1844-1909), a history of Brown's Park (the area in which he lived) and an inventory of the Jarvie Historic Site.
- The Chinese Massacre at Rock Springs, Wyoming Territory
- Free ebook at Internet Archive.
- 1970's Boom And Bust Of Rock Springs Ray Lorenzon Part 1
1970's Boom And Bust Of Rock Springs Ray Lorenzon Part 2
- Free audio interview at Internet Archive.
- Sweetwater County Oral Histories at Wyoming Archives.
- Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church Centennial
- A history of the Catholic church in Rock Springs in .pdf format.
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