Editing Uinta County, Wyoming (section)

==History==
Uinta County was created on December 1, 1869, by the legislature of the [[Wyoming Territory]], with its temporary seat located at [[Fort Bridger, Wyoming|Fort Bridger]].<ref name="BT">{{Cite web |editor-last=Bartlett |editor-first=I.S. |title=chapter 31 |url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wytttp/history/bartlett/chapter31.htm |website=History of Wyoming |publisher=S.J. Clarke Pub. Co.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2004 |editor-last=Long |editor-first=John H. |title=Wyoming: Individual County Chronologies |url=http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/documents/WY_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150803014725/http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/documents/WY_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm |archive-date=August 3, 2015 |access-date=August 19, 2015 |website=Wyoming Atlas of Historical County Boundaries |publisher=The [[Newberry Library]]}}</ref>

[[File:Foothills of the Uintas South of Evanston, Wyoming.jpg|thumb|left|Foothills of the [[Uinta Mountains]] south of Evanston, Wyoming]]
Originally, it ran along the entire western border of Wyoming, including [[Yellowstone National Park]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Uinta County Map |url=http://genealogyalongtherockies.com/wyoming/maps/wyuimap1888.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328110436/http://genealogyalongtherockies.com/wyoming/maps/wyuimap1888.htm |archive-date=March 28, 2012 |access-date=August 2, 2011 |website=Atlas of the World 1888 |publisher=Rand McNally & Co.}}</ref> The county was named for Utah's [[Uinta Mountains]], which are noticeable from many places in the county.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Urbanek |first=Mae |title=Wyoming Place Names |publisher=Mountain Press Pub. Co. |year=1988 |isbn=0-87842-204-8 |location=Missoula MT}}</ref> The county was given its present boundaries in 1911 when [[Lincoln County, Wyoming|Lincoln County]] was carved out of the northern part of Uinta County.<ref name=BT/>