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Goshen County (/ ˈ ɡ oʊ ʃ ə n /, GOH-shən) is a county in the U.S. state of Wyoming. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 12,498. [1] Its county seat is Torrington. [2] The eastern boundary of the County borders the Nebraska state line. Goshen County produces more beef cattle than any other Wyoming county.
Torrington is a city in and the county seat of Goshen County, Wyoming, United States. [5] 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.
After a downturn in the market and changes in the livestock industry, the Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha lost value through the 1960s. In 1973 the Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha was sold to the Canal Capital Corporation of New York. In 1999 the Union Stockyards were closed by the City of Omaha, and replaced with a business park. [9]
It housed the largest ranch horse market in the world. In 1910, 20,000 animals arrived at the Stockyards each day from farms and ranches in 20 states, including Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Utah and South Dakota. Ten slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants were in operation. [4]
It has five factories, located at Fort Morgan, Colorado, Scottsbluff, Nebraska, Torrington and Lovell, Wyoming, and Billings, Montana. In May 2015 the co-op announced it would be ending production at the Torrington site and would only use that site for storage. As such it plans to reduce the workforce at its Torrington site from 76 staffers to ...
The Wyoming Stock Growers Association (WSGA) is an American cattle organization that started in 1872 among Wyoming cattle ranchers to standardize and organize the cattle industry but quickly grew into a political force that has been called "the de facto territorial government" [1] of Wyoming's organization into early statehood, and wielded great influence throughout the Western United States.
United States Post Office (Torrington, Wyoming) W. Wyoming Medium Correctional Institution This page was last edited on 27 January 2017, at 01:59 (UTC). ...
Bartlett Richards: Nebraska Sandhills Cattleman written by son Bartlett Richards, Jr. with Ruth Van Ackeren, details the life of Bartlett Richards, Sr. with his personal and business correspondence from his first arriving at Cheyenne, Wyoming in August 1879, his education and apprenticeship with some of the most powerful Havard-taught cattle ...