Laramie, Wyoming
Laramie, Wyoming Downtown Laramie Historic District Downtown Laramie Historic District Laramie / l r mi/ is a town/city and the governmental center of county of Albany County, Wyoming, United States.
The populace was 30,816 at the 2010 census. Located on the Laramie River in southeastern Wyoming, the town/city is west of Cheyenne, at the junction of Interstate 80 and U.S.
Laramie was settled in the mid-19th century along the Union Pacific Railroad line, which crosses the Laramie River at Laramie.
It is home to the University of Wyoming, Wyoming Technical Institute, and a branch of Laramie County Community College.
Laramie Regional Airport serves Laramie.
The ruins of Fort Sanders, an army fort predating Laramie, lie just south of the town/city along Route 287.
Located in the Laramie Valley between the Snowy Range and the Laramie Range, the town/city draws outside enthusiasts with its abundance of outside activities, and is the home of the University of Wyoming.
In 2011, Laramie was titled as one of the best metros/cities in which to retire by Money Magazine, which cited its scenic location, low taxes, and educational opportunities. Laramie was titled for Jacques La - Ramie, a French or French-Canadian trapper who disappeared in the Laramie Mountains in the late 1810s and was never heard from again.
More Wyoming landmarks are titled for him than for any other trapper but Jim Bridger. Because the name was used so incessantly, the town was called Laramie City for decades to distinguish it from other uses.
Laramie was established in the mid-1860s as a tent town/city near the Overland Stage Line route, the Union Pacific portion of the first transcontinental barns , and just north of Fort Sanders army post.
The rails reached Laramie on May 4, 1868 when assembly crews worked through town.
Laramie City (as it was known in early years) soon had stores, homes, a school, and churches. Laramie's fame as the terminal of the Union Pacific Railroad, acquired when the 268-mile (431 km) section from North Platte, Nebraska was opened in May ended in early August 1868 when a 93-mile (150 km) section of track was opened to Benton, 6 miles (9.7 km) east of present-day Sinclair, Wyoming.
Laramie suffered initially from lawlessness.
Long was Laramie's first marshal, and with his brothers owned the saloon Bucket of Blood.
In Laramie - 1908 In 1869, Wyoming was ordered as Wyoming Territory, the first council of which passed a bill granting equal political rights to women in the territory.
In March 1870, five Laramie inhabitants became the first women in the world to serve on a jury. As Laramie was the first town in Wyoming to hold a municipal election, on September 6, 1870, a Laramie resident was the first woman in the United States to cast a legal vote in a general election. In 1886, a plant to produce electricity was built. Several county-wide barns s were based in Laramie, including the Laramie, North Park and Pacific Railroad and Telegraph Company established in 1880 and the Laramie, North Park and Western Railroad established in 1901.
Warren signed a bill that established the University of Wyoming (UW) in 1886, the only enhance college in the state.
Laramie was chosen as its site, and UW opened there in 1887.
The town/city was veiled by global media in 1998 after the murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay pupil at the University of Wyoming.
Federal hate crimes legislation was signed into law in 2009. As of May 2016, Wyoming does not have a hate crimes law. Shepard's murder was the subject of the award-winning play, later adapted as a movie, The Laramie Project. In 2004, Laramie became the first town/city in Wyoming to pass a law to prohibit smoking in enclosed workplaces, including bars, restaurants and private clubs.
However, the judge ruled that the opponents had floundered to meet their burden of showing momentous enigma with the election, and the ordinance, which had turn into effective in April 2005, remained in effect. In August 2005, Laramie's City Council defeated an attempt to amend the ordinance to allow smoking in bars and private clubs.
Laramie, 1908 The Medicine Bow (Snowy Range) Mountains are prominent with Laramie's outside enthusiasts.
Laramie is positioned at 41 18 47 N 105 35 14 W (41.312927, 105.587251). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 17.76 square miles (46.00 km2), of which 17.74 square miles (45.95 km2) is territory and 0.02 square miles (0.05 km2) is water. Laramie is on a high plain between two mountain peaks, the Snowy Range, about 30 miles (48 km) to the west, and the Laramie Range, 7 miles (11 km) to the east.
The Laramie River runs through Laramie toward its confluence with the North Platte River east of the Laramie Range.
The town/city is about 50 miles (80 km) west of Cheyenne, Wyoming, and 130 miles (209 km) north of Denver, Colorado.
Laramie lies along U.S.
Laramie's total rain averages about 11 inches (279 mm) a year, and the average number of rainy days per year is about 86.
Laramie has a semi-arid climate (Koppen climate classification BSk) with long, cold, dry winters and short, warm, somewhat wetter summers.
Climate data for Laramie, Wyoming (Laramie Regional Airport), 1981 2010 normals Laramie Jubilee Days started in 1940 to jubilate Wyoming Statehood Day on July 10.
The Geological Museum at the University of Wyoming is open to the enhance and homes more than 50,000 catalogued mineral, rock, and fossil specimens, including a dinosaur exhibit. The university's art exhibition offers loggia exhibits, lectures, workshops, classes, and enhance tours year-round. The Fine Arts Concert Hall on ground presents incessant concerts and recitals amid the school year. Housed in the Ivinson Mansion near the center of town is the Laramie Plains Museum. The Wyoming Children's Museum and Nature Center has interactive exhibits and pottery classes for kids aged 3 and older. The central library of the Albany County Library system, with a wide range of materials for grownups and children, is near downtown Laramie; the system's branch libraries are in Centennial, 28 miles (45 km) west of Laramie and Rock River, 32 miles (51 km) northwest of Laramie. William Robertson Coe Library, the chief library of the University of Wyoming, has materials for general research in business, education, fine arts, science, humanities, and the civil sciences as well as audio visual and government documents collections.
Twenty-one sites in Laramie, including the Wyoming Territorial Penitentiary, are encompassed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
The other sites are the Downtown Laramie Historic District, the Ivinson Mansion and Grounds, Old Main on the University of Wyoming campus, the Barn at Oxford Horse Ranch, Bath Ranch, Bath Row, Charles E.
Two other Albany County sites near Laramie are on the NRHP.
About 20 miles (32 km) east of the town/city is the Ames Monument, a large granite pyramid dedicated to brothers Oakes Ames, a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts, and Oliver Ames, Jr., who were influential in building the Union Pacific portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
Sports enthusiasts find much to do in and near Laramie, nestled at 7,165 feet (2,184 m) above sea level between the Laramie Range (Laramie Mountains) and the Snowy Range (Medicine Bow Mountains).
Rock climbing, hiking, and camping are among the attractions of Vedauwoo, an assemblage of weathered granite slabs, boulders, and cliffs covering 10 square miles (26 km2) in the Medicine Bow Routt National Forest, about 16 miles (26 km) east of Laramie off Interstate 80. Volunteers from the Medicine Bow Nordic Association, in cooperation with the Forest Service, maintain groomed cross-country ski trails in a zone of the Laramie Range about 10 miles (16 km) east of the city. To the west, Snowy Range cross-country trails run through the nationwide forest west of Centennial, and other trails follow gentle terrain 32 miles (51 km) southwest of Laramie near Woods Landing.
Miles of snowmobile trails wind through the forests, and many forest areas are open to travel by snowshoe. The Snowy Range Ski Area, about 30 miles (48 km) west of Laramie off Wyoming Highway 130, offers downhill skiing and snowboarding on 27 trails ranging in trouble from beginner to expert. Laramie is a center for mountain biking.
Mountain bike trails meander through forests in the Laramie Range and the Snowy Range.
The Medicine Bow Mountain Bike Patrol, part of the Laramie Bicycling Network, is a non-profit volunteer organization that works with the Forest Service to patrol and maintain biking trails east of Laramie.
The Medicine Bow Rail Trail is a mountain bike trail, 21 miles (34 km) long, assembled between 2005 and 2007 on the bed of an abandoned barns southwest of Laramie.
The Laramie Enduro 111 - K, an endurance mountain bike race of 111 kilometres (69 mi) is held annually on Laramie Range trails. Other annual affairs include the Poker Run recreational ski race held in the Snowy Mountains each February, and the Tour De Laramie, a bicycle rally with stops at small-town pubs held in April.
Trout fishing is another prominent sport in and near Laramie.
The Laramie River, which flows north into Wyoming from Colorado, is fished as are the lesser streams in both mountain peaks and the many small plains lakes in the Laramie Basin. Other outside activities prominent near Laramie include camping, picnicking, rafting on the Laramie River and the North Platte River, viewing of wildlife such as mule deer, elk, moose, and pronghorn, and general sightseeing.
Laramie has 14 town/city parks that, among them, include playgrounds, cyclic wading pools, jogging and biking paths, baseball and softball fields, a skateboard park, horseshoe pits, tennis courts, volleyball courts, a public circuit court, soccer fields, picnic tables, river fishing, and a cyclicly stocked fishing pond. Laramie inhabitants also have access to the University of Wyoming's 18-hole golf course, as well as a wide range of college recreation sites including squash courts, handball courts, baseball diamonds, basketball courts, a climbing wall, and fields for football, soccer, and track. Holdings, 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Laramie had arsenic concentrations in on-site water well samples 3,100-times higher than DEQ cleanup levels. The site has been storing a 1,000-ton pile of contaminated flue dust from Bunker Hill Mine and Smelting Complex, an Idaho superfund site, under a tarp since the 1980s. In 2011 L.C.
Laramie City Hall The council picks a mayor and vice-mayor once every two years at the first council meeting in January. Laramie is the governmental center of county of Albany County and homes county offices, courts, and the county library.
In 2015, Laramie passed an LGBT anti-discrimination bill. The ordinance bans discrimination against LGBT citizens in employment, housing and enhance accommodations such as bars and restaurants. Albany County School District#1, headquartered in Laramie, governs 19 enhance schools in an region of 4,000 square miles (10,000 km2) including Laramie, Centennial, Rock River, and non-urban locations.
A total of about 3,400 pupils attend these schools, the Laramie fraction of which contains seven elementary schools, two middle schools, Laramie High School, and Whiting High School. Snowy Range Academy, a charter school, serves kids in grades K 7, and St.
Laurence, a Catholic school, serves kids in grades K 6. The University of Wyoming also offers a Lab School (colloquially alluded to as "Prep") for K 9 pupils. The chief campus of the University of Wyoming is in Laramie.
In 2009, about 13,400 pupils were enrolled there at the undergraduate, graduate, and experienced levels. The Laramie County Community College is also in Laramie.
Wyo - Tech also has a ground in Laramie, offering longterm position training in the automotive, diesel, and collision-repair industries. The Laramie Boomerang is Laramie's chief newspaper.
Wyoming Public Television station KCWC-DT, licensed to Central Wyoming College in Riverton, has a transmitter near Laramie known as KWYP-DT. Many airways broadcasts broadcast from Laramie.
From 1958 to 1962, Laramie was the setting for ABC TV series Lawman, starring John Russell and Peter Brown, and from 1959 to 1963, Laramie was also the name of an NBC tv series, starring John Smith and Robert Fuller as ranch partners who operate a stagecoach station 12 miles (19 km) east of the city.
Laramie in its early days is also featured in Seasons 4 and 5 of the AMC tv drama series, Hell On Wheels, set in California and in Laramie. In addition to The Laramie Project (film) and the play from which it was adapted, a several other Cultural depictions of Matthew Shepard are set in Laramie.
Intersects US 287 in Laramie.
Alternate Business Route running from I-80 just east of Laramie, concurrent with Grand Avenue, through the town/city to North 3rd Street, US 287.
Sky - West Airlines (United) provides everyday commercial flights between Laramie Regional Airport and Denver, Colorado. The airport, 3 miles (5 km) west of the central company district, is directed and financed by the City of Laramie and Albany County.
Laramie has multiple Taxi companies, as well as Uber service, which launched in 2017.
Greenride of Northern Colorado provides service from Laramie to Fort Collins and Denver International Airport.
The city's drinking water comes from the Big Laramie River, the biggest single source, and wellfields in the Casper Aquifer, and it is treated in a undivided plant. The city's wastewater plant, which replaced an older plant, began operation in 1998. The Solid Waste Division operates the city-owned landfill, about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the city. Laramie has 135 miles (217 km) of streets and 31 miles (50 km) of alleys. Academics and writers who live or have lived in Laramie include poets Craig Arnold and H.L.
Attorneys with ties to Laramie include Thurman Arnold, Richard Honaker, Gerry Spence, and Tom Lubnau, who in 2013 became Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives.
Actors Jim Beaver and Wayde Preston are from Laramie as are Olympic athlete Jesseca Cross and experienced basketball player Jaycee Carroll.
Downey, born in Laramie, became a U.S.
Other eminents with Laramie connections are: "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Laramie city, Wyoming".
Parkin, Patsy, "Jacques La - Ramie History", 2000.
"Laramie History" Laramie Plains Museum.
"Chapter 3: Coming of Rails" Roberts, Phil (editor), University of Wyoming History Department, Readings in Wyoming History.
"Chapter 4: Establishing the Territory and Granting Women Equal Rights Roberts, Phil (editor), University of Wyoming History Department, Readings in Wyoming History.
"Fact Book: Historical Highlights" University of Wyoming.
Matthew Shepard and Laramie: A crime that lingers, New York Times.
Laramie Smoking Ban Subject of Television Program Tuesday" University of Wyoming news release, October 16, 2006.
"Historical Decennial Enumeration Population for Wyoming Counties, Cities, and Towns".
"Subcounty populace estimates: Wyoming 2000-2007" (CSV).
"Laramie Jubilee Days".
Laramie Jubilee Days.
The Laramie Plains Museum.
"Wyoming Children's Museum & Nature Center".
"National Register of Historic Places: State listings: Wyoming: Albany County".
"Laramie River from Colorado into Wyoming".
City of Laramie.
City of Laramie.
"Laramie Community Ice Arena".
City of Laramie.
Laramie Boomerang.
City of Laramie.
"About Wyoming Public Television".
"Wyoming Public Radio".
"Radio Stations Near the City of Laramie, Wyoming".
"Radio Stations in Laramie, Wyoming".
Hell on Wheels, a tv series with the backdrop of the assembly of the transcontinental barns in the 1860s..., Season 5, set in California and Laramie, Wyoming, premiered last Saturday.
Laramie Regional Airport.
City of Laramie.
City of Laramie.
City of Laramie.
City of Laramie.
Chisum, "Boom Towns on the Union Pacific: Laramie, Benton, and Bear River City." Wikimedia Commons has media related to Laramie, Wyoming.
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Laramie.
City of Laramie, official website Laramie Chamber of Commerce 1868 Lynching of Steve Long and Moyer brothers, Laramie City, Wyoming, Legends of America Laramie, Wyoming at DMOZ Municipalities and communities of Albany County, Wyoming, United States
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