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Big Horn County
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county in northern Wyoming, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Wyoming
- Founded
- March 12, 1890 (authorized), 1897 (organized)
- Named after
- Bighorn Mountains
- Seat
- Basin
- Largest town
- Lovell
- Total
- 3,159 sq mi (8,180 km )
- Land
- 3,137 sq mi (8,120 km )
- Water
- 22 sq mi (57 km ) 0.7%
- Estimate 2025
- 12,024
- Density
- 3.673/sq mi (1.418/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−7 ( Mountain )
- Summer dst
- UTC−6 ( MDT )
- Congressional district
- At-large
- Website
- www .bighorncountywy .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Big Horn Mountains
- Official name
- Big Horn County
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Wyoming
- Contains
- Basin
- Capital
- Basin
- Population
- 11521
- Area
- 8162
- Shares border with
- Carbon County
- Official website
- www.bighorncountywy.gov
- Image
- Basin-wy-post-office.jpg
- Households
- 4408
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- Commons category
- Big Horn County, Wyoming
- topic's main category
- Category:Big Horn County, Wyoming
- water as percent of area
- 0.7
- native label
- Big Horn County
- inception
- 1897-00-00
- different from
- Big Horn County
- per capita income
- 25587
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Encyclopedic overview
Big Horn County is a county in the U.S. state of Wyoming. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 11,521. The county seat is Basin. Its north boundary abuts the south boundary of Montana.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Big Horn County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.