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County	Established	Original County(s)	County Seat	Coordinator
Albany	1858	Original County	Laramie	Bob Jenkins
Big Horn	1890	Fremont, Johnson	Basin
Campbell	1911	Crook, Weston	Gillette
Carbon	1868	Original County	Rawlins
Converse	1888	Laramie, Albany	Douglas
Crook	1885	Pease	Sundance
Fremont	1884	Sweetwater	Lander
Goshen	1911	Platte, Laramie	Torrington
Hot Springs	1911	Fremont	Thermopolis
Johnson	1875	Pease	Buffalo	Rebecca Maloney
Laramie	1867	Original County	Cheyenne	Bob Jenkins
Lincoln	1913	Uinta	Kemmerer
Natrona	1888	Carbon	Casper	Bob Jenkins
Niobrara	1911	Converse	Lusk
Park	1909	Big Horn	Cody
Platte	1913	Laramie	Wheatland
Sheridan	1888	Johnson	Sheridan	Rebecca Maloney
Sublette	1921	Fremont	Pinedale
Sweetwater	1867	Originally Carter County	Green River	Angela M. Cable
Teton	1921	Lincoln	Jackson
Uinta	1869	Original County	Evanston
Washakie	1911	Big Horn, Johnson	Worland
Weston	1890	Crook	Newcastle	Norma Hass
Wind River Reservation	Est. 1851	Sweetwater, Fremont	Ft. Washakie	Rebecca Maloney

Statehood

Carved from sections of Dakota, Utah, and Idaho territories, Wyoming Territory came into existence by act of Congress on July 25, 1868. The territorial government was formally inaugurated May 19, 1869. The first territorial governor, John A. Campbell, appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant, took his oath of office on April 15, 1869.

At the time of its organization, Wyoming had already been divided into four counties: Laramie, established January 9, 1867; Carter (later Sweetwater), established December 27, 1867; Carbon and Albany, December 16, 1868. These counties extended from the northern to the southern boundaries of the territory. Upon the organization of Wyoming Territory, a portion of Utah and Idaho, extending from Montana (including Yellowstone Park) to the Wyoming-Utah boundary, was annexed and named Uinta County. As the territory and later the state became settled, twenty-three counties were carved from the original five counties.

State Flag

The Wyoming state flag was created through a design contest organized by the Wyoming Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) in 1916. Verna Keays (later Mrs. A.C. Keyes) of Casper won the contest with her design, which features a bison with the state seal on its shoulder, set against a blue field with a white and red border. The design was officially adopted by the Wyoming legislature on January 31, 1917.