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The city, founded in 1906, [5] is an incorporated entity of the state of Wyoming. The community was named Riverton because of the four rivers that meet there. [6] The town was built on land ceded from the Wind River Indian Reservation, a situation that often makes it subject to jurisdictional claims by the nearby Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes.
The winter weather even reached the West Coast, with snowfall of 3.7 inches in downtown San Francisco setting an all-time record on February 5, 1887. [ 2 ] The loss of livestock was not discovered until spring, when many cattle carcasses were spread across the fields and washed down streams.
Indiana – a U.S. state, was admitted to the United States as the 19th state on December 11, 1816. It is located in the midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region of North America . With 6,483,802 residents, as of the 2010 U.S. Census, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density.
Ocean Lake is located in the U. S. state of Wyoming about 17 miles northwest of Riverton. Ocean Lake resides within the 11,505-acre Ocean Lake Wildlife Habitat Management Area. [ 2 ] It is an essential breeding ground for thousands of migratory waterfowl . [ 2 ]
It is 8 miles (13 km) from the center of Arapahoe (at the Arapahoe School) northeast to the center of Riverton, via Rendezvous Road. According to the United States Census Bureau , the Arapahoe CDP has a total area of 27.8 square miles (72.1 km 2 ), of which 27.6 square miles (71.6 km 2 ) is land and 0.2 square miles (0.5 km 2 ), or 0.68%, is water.
Riverton was laid out in 1887, and was named after its location on the Wabash River. [4] A post office was established at Riverton in 1887, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1905.
The Wind River Reservation dropout rate is 40%, more than twice the state average of Wyoming. Teenagers are twice as likely to commit suicide compared to other young adults within Wyoming. [ 37 ] There are other issues that commonly occur on the reservation such as child abuse, teenage pregnancy, sexual assault, domestic violence, and alcoholism.
The Lamar Buffalo Ranch is a historic livestock ranch in the Lamar River valley of Yellowstone National Park, in the U.S. state of Wyoming.As an early contribution to the conservation of bison, it was created to preserve one of the last free-roaming American bison (buffalo) herds in the United States.