Editing Riverton, Wyoming (section)

==History==
The city, founded in 1906,<ref>{{Cite web |last=McFarland |first=Clair |date=April 18, 2024 |title=Wyoming Tribes May Be On Path To Get 60,000 Acres Of Federal Land |url=https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/04/18/wyoming-tribes-may-be-on-path-to-get-60-000-acres-of-federal-land/ |access-date=April 19, 2024 |website=Cowboy State Daily |language=en}}</ref> is an incorporated entity of the state of Wyoming. The community was named Riverton because of the four rivers that meet there.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=23234 |title= Profile for Riverton, Wyoming, WY |publisher= ePodunk |access-date=July 27, 2012}}</ref> 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 [[Shoshone people|Eastern Shoshone]] and [[Arapaho people|Northern Arapaho]] tribes.

A legal ruling on November 7, 2017, by the [[10th Circuit Court of Appeals|10th Circuit Court]], ruled again in the [[Environmental Protection Agency|EPA]] reservation boundary dispute. Though the decision was complex, the 10th Circuit Court answered plainly. Riverton is not on the reservation. The 10th Circuit's decision is now official and final after the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals 2017 ruling. The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision of the EPA, and held that the land had been ceded in 1905 by an Act of Congress. This ruling ends the dispute, bringing the debate and controversy to an end.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/opinions/14/14-9512.pdf|title=STATE OF WYOMING, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; E. SCOTT PRUITT|website=Ca10.uscourts.gov|access-date=January 9, 2018}}</ref>
 
[[Riverton Regional Airport]] (now Central Wyoming Regional Airport) is home to a [[National Weather Service Forecast Office]] and [[NEXRAD]] radar site which is responsible to cover all of western and central Wyoming.

The [[Chicago & Northwestern Railway]] completed an extension of the "Cowboy Line" through to Lander which is roughly 22 miles west of Riverton.  Plans were to continue the line west from Lander.  In 1972, the end of the line was moved from Lander and the new terminus of the line was in Riverton.  Services were then discontinued in Riverton in the mid-1970's as the line was slowly dismantled west of Casper.