Lander, Wyoming Lander, Wyoming Downtown Lander, 2008 Downtown Lander, 2008 Official seal of Lander, Wyoming Location of Lander, Wyoming Location of Lander, Wyoming Lander, Wyoming is positioned in the US Lander, Wyoming - Lander, Wyoming State Wyoming Website City of Lander Wyoming Lander is a town/city in, and the governmental center of county of, Fremont County, Wyoming, United States.
Lander, Lander is positioned in central Wyoming, along the Middle Fork of the Popo Agie River.
A tourism center with a several dude ranches nearby, Lander is positioned just south of the Wind River Indian Reservation.
7.2 Wyoming Catholic College Lander was known as Pushroot, Fort Brown, and Fort Auger before to its current name.
The town was titled Lander with respect to General Frederick W.
Lander, a famous transcontinental explorer who surveyed the Oregon Trail's Lander Cutoff. Several miles southeast of town near present-day U.S.
On October 1, 1906, Lander became the westward end of the "Cowboy Line" of the Chicago and North Western Railway, thus originating the slogan "where rails end and trails begin." Originally intended to be a transcontinental mainline to Coos Bay, Oregon, or Eureka, California, the line never went further west, and service to Lander was abandoned in 1972. Lander is where the first paid rodeo took place, which continues to this day in coordination with the town's raucous Fourth of July festivities. Lander is positioned at 42 49 59 N 108 43 57 W (42.833035, 108.732633). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.67 square miles (12.10 km2), all of it land. As with much of the state, Lander experiences a semi-arid climate (Koppen BSk) with cold, dry winters and hot, wetter summers.
Climate data for Lander, Wyoming (1981 2010 normals, extremes 1891 present) Average annual rain Lander, Wy 1948-2014 source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Average everyday rain Lander, Wy 1948-2014 Source National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration In the city, the populace was spread out with 24.1% under the age of 18, 7.1% from 18 to 24, 26.7% from 25 to 44, 25.5% from 45 to 64, and 16.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
Suburban Lander Present day Lander is home to various State and Federal government offices, including the U.S.
Forest Service (Washakie Ranger District, Shoshone National Forest), the Bureau of Land Management (Lander Field Office), the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, and a Resident Agency of the Denver Field Office of the FBI, as well as the Wyoming Life Resource Center and the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality.
One of the country's primary bronze foundries, Eagle Bronze, is positioned in Lander, as is the International Headquarters of the National Outdoor Leadership School and other surrounding and land-related non profit organizations including offices of the Wyoming Outdoor Council, the Wyoming office of The Nature Conservancy, the Wyoming Wildlife Federation, and Wyoming Catholic College.
In addition to the enhance zone and a traditional agriculture and grazing economy, the economy of Lander and the region are supported by substantial tourism.
Located at the foot of the Wind River Mountains, Lander serves as a point of departure for camping, hunting, fishing, wilderness travel, climbing, and mountaineering.
In addition to the wilderness climbing and mountaineering opportunities in the Wind River Range, modern climbing areas close to town (most prominently, Sinks Canyon and "Wild Iris," positioned at Limestone Mountain) attract momentous numbers of modern climbers to Lander.
The Lander Art Center downtown displays rotating art exhibits, holds biannual art fairs, and hosts varying art classes. The work of William Shakespeare is performed by the touring Wyoming Shakespeare Festival Company, a non-profit organization based out of Lander.
The Lander Community Concerts Association has brought in various performing artists since 1947. Lander's small-town library is the chief branch of the Fremont County Library System, the initial small-town Carnegie library still stands as part of the current building.
The Lander Brew Festival features samples from Rocky Mountain-area breweries and has been held since 2002.
Other annual affairs include the Wyoming State Winter Fair, the International Climbers Festival, and the Annual One Shot Antelope Hunt. Sinks Canyon State Park, near Lander Outdoor attractions near Lander include Sinks Canyon State Park, Shoshone National Forest, the Wind River Mountains, and the Red Desert.
Additionally, Lander is home to a number of exhibitions, including the Fremont County Pioneer Museum, which focuses on the history of the Lander area; the Museum of the American West, which maintains a complex of historic structures; the Lander Children's Museum, with hands-on exhibits; and the Evans Dahl Memorial Museum, dedicated to the Annual One Shot Antelope Hunt. Since 1998, Lander and Fremont County have been represented in the Wyoming State Senate by economist/businessman Cale Case, a Republican.
Public education in the town/city of Lander is provided by Fremont County School District #1.
Lander Valley High School is the chief high school.
In 2007, Wyoming Catholic College, a four-year, coeducational, private college was established in Lander.
At present, Wyoming Catholic College has accomplished pre-accreditation through The American Academy for Liberal Education and has accomplished candidate status by the Higher Learning Commission .
The National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) was established in Lander and is headquartered in the city.
Its Rocky Mountain branch operates out of Lander.
The Wyoming Department of Health Wyoming Life Resource Center (WLRC), originally the Wyoming State Training School (WSTS), a residentiary facility for physically and mentally disabled citizens , is positioned in Lander. The facility was directed by the Wyoming Board of Charities and Reform until that agency was dissolved as a result of a state constitutional amendment passed in November 1990. The United States Postal Service operates the Lander Post Office. Scheduled traveler airline service is available via the close-by Riverton Regional Airport positioned near Riverton, Wyoming.
Clayton Danks, the model of the cowboy on the Wyoming state trademark, the Bucking Horse and Rider, is interred at Mount Hope Cemetery in Lander. Larry La - Rose, NASA Flight Engineer, Shuttle Training Aircraft, Shuttle carrier Associate, is a indigenous of Lander.
Nate Marquardt, a Mixed Martial Artist and current Welterweight in the UFC, was born in Lander.
Meyer, Wyoming lawyer general and state treasurer was an assistant county lawyer in Lander early in his political career.
Bob Nicholas, Wyoming State representative from District 8 in Cheyenne, is a indigenous of Lander.
Tom Bell, Founder of High Country News was a Lander native.
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