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A map of the counties and capital city of Wyoming. The U.S. state of Wyoming lies in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States and has a varied geography. It is bordered by Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Idaho to the west, Utah to the southwest, and Colorado to the south.
Operates original Genesee and Wyoming Railroad and Dansville and Mount Morris Railroad. Rockdale, Sandow and Southern Railroad [83] RSS: III: Acquired - 2012 a: 4 mi (6.4 km) St-Laurent et Atlantique Railroad [84] SLQ: III: Acquired - 2002: 95 mi (153 km) St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad [85] SLR: III: Acquired - 2002: 143 mi (230 km)
The Territory of Wyoming was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 25, 1868, [1] until July 10, 1890, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Wyoming. Cheyenne was the territorial capital. The boundaries of the Wyoming Territory were identical to those of the modern State of Wyoming.
Only a few states require their recording offices to maintain this type of index. Among these states are Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. In addition, some other states permit recording offices to maintain tract indexes (for example, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, Ohio, and Wisconsin).
The Genesee and Wyoming Railroad was the flagship predecessor to the G&W; Edward L. Fuller purchased it out of a bankruptcy in 1899. At that time, the railroad was operating as a 14.5-mile long (23.3 km) single-track line serving a single customer, a salt mine owned by Fuller in Retsof, New York.
Checkerboarding refers to the intermingling of land ownership between two or more owners resulting in a checkerboard pattern. Checkerboarding is prevalent in the Western United States and Western Canada because of extensive use in railroad grants for western expansion , although it had its beginnings in the canal land grant era.