Torrington
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city in and county seat of Goshen County, Wyoming, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Wyoming
- County
- Goshen
- Named after
- Torrington, Connecticut
- Mayor
- Herb Doby
- Total
- 3.73 sq mi (9.65 km )
- Land
- 3.72 sq mi (9.64 km )
- Water
- 0.0039 sq mi (0.01 km )
- Elevation
- 4,104 ft (1,251 m)
- Density
- 1,644.0/sq mi (634.75/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-7 ( Mountain (MST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-6 (MDT)
- Fips code
- 56-77530
- Website
- City website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Named after
- Torrington
- Official name
- Torrington
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Goshen County
- Population
- 6119
- Area
- 11.98255
- Elevation
- 1251
- Body of water
- North Platte River
- Capital of
- Goshen County
- Official website
- www.city-of-torrington.org
- Image
- Torrington, Wyoming - Welcome sign.jpg
- Households
- 2427
- Dialing code
- 307
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- Commons category
- Torrington, Wyoming
- postal code
- 82240
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Torrington, Wyoming
- inception
- 1900-00-00
- topic's main category
- Category:Torrington, Wyoming
- water as percent of area
- 0.0548
- per capita income
- 25439
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Encyclopedic overview
Torrington is a city in and the county seat of Goshen County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 6,119 at the 2020 census, down from 6,501 at the 2010 census.
It is the home of Eastern Wyoming College, and is the surrounding region's center of commercial activity. Within this primarily agricultural community, there are several fertilizer plants, a former sugar beet factory which closed in 2019, and numerous tourist facilities and retail businesses that serve the local and nearby rural populations.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Torrington” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.