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Downtown Green River, looking east at Flaming Gorge Way. Location of Green River in Sweetwater County, Wyoming. Green River is a city in and the county seat of Sweetwater County, Wyoming, United States, in the southwestern part of the state. [6] The population was 11,825 at the 2020 census. It is the 7th most populous city in Wyoming.
207,363 acres (839.17 km 2) Established. October 1, 1968. Governing body. United States Forest Service. Website. Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area. Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area is a United States national recreation area in Wyoming and Utah. [1] Its centerpiece is the 91 miles (146 km) long Flaming Gorge Reservoir.
Flaming Gorge Reservoir is the largest reservoir in Wyoming, on the Green River, impounded behind the Flaming Gorge Dam. Construction on the dam began in 1958 and was completed in 1964. The reservoir stores 3,788,900 acre-feet (4.6735 × 10 9 m 3) of water when measured at an elevation of 6,040 feet (1,841 m) above sea-level (maximum).
The Green River, located in the western United States, is the chief tributary of the Colorado River. The watershed of the river, known as the Green River Basin, covers parts of the U.S. states of Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado. The Green River is 730 miles (1,170 km) long, beginning in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming and flowing through ...
The Sweetwater Brewery, also known as the Green River Brewery, was built in 1900 in Green River, Wyoming. The present structure is the surviving remnant of a three-building complex comprising an office/saloon, engine house, and the present brewery building. It was the first brewery in Wyoming, with operations dating to 1872 when Adam Braun ...
Added to NRHP. January 8, 2009. The Green River Downtown Historic District is a 5.7-acre (2.3 ha) historic district in Green River, Wyoming that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. The district included 11 contributing buildings and one other contributing structure, including the Union Pacific Depot.
Names Hill is a bluff located on the bank of the Green River in the U.S. state of Wyoming, where travelers on the Oregon and California trails carved their names into the rock. It is one of three notable "recording areas" along the emigrant trails in Wyoming along with Register Cliff and Independence Rock. The site was listed on the National ...
Wyoming is bordered on the north by Montana, on the east by South Dakota and Nebraska, on the south by Colorado, on the southwest by Utah, and on the west by Idaho. It is the tenth largest state in the United States in total area, containing 97,814 square miles (253,340 km 2) and is made up of 23 counties. From the north border to the south ...