Editing Uinta County, Wyoming (section)

==Geography==
According to the [[United States Census Bureau|U.S. Census Bureau]], the county has a total area of {{convert|2088|sqmi}}, of which {{convert|2081|sqmi}} is land and {{convert|6.3|sqmi}} (0.3%) is water.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 22, 2012 |title=2010 Census Gazetteer Files |url=http://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/counties_list_56.txt |access-date=August 18, 2015 |publisher=US Census Bureau}}</ref> It is the second-smallest county in Wyoming by area.

===Geology===
The 161&nbsp;km wide western North American [[Fold and thrust belt]] extends from Alaska to Mexico, forming several northerly trending [[thrust fault]]s in southwest Wyoming, including the Crawford, Absaroka and Hogsback (Darby), which formed from the Late [[Jurassic]] through the early [[Eocene]]. The Painter Reservoir Field<ref>[https://static1.squarespace.com/static/519a372ce4b0be74de0cbd3c/t/560eef10e4b013138258be11/1443819280242/Tillman-Elliott-UintaCounty.pdf Tillman, Laura E.  ''Sedimentary Facies. . '' (15 February 1989; accessed 13 January 2019)]</ref> was discovered in 1977 from the 407 m thick Nuggest [[Sandstone]] which forms an [[anticline]] [[structural trap]] in the [[hanging wall]] of the Absaroka thrust plate, at a depth of about 3&nbsp;km.<ref>Lamb, C. F. 1980, Painter Reservoir Field-Giant in the Wyoming Thrust Belt, in Giant Oil and Gas Fields of the Decade: 1968-1978, AAPG Memoir 30, Halbouty, M.T., Tulsa: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, {{ISBN|0891813063}}, pp. 281-288</ref>
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===National protected area===
*[[Wasatch National Forest]] (part)

===State protected areas===
*[[Fort Bridger|Fort Bridger State Historic Site]]
*[[Bear River State Park]]

===Major highways===
*[[Image:I-80.svg|20px]] - [[Interstate 80 (Wyoming)|Interstate 80]] 
*[[Image:US 189.svg|20px]] - [[U.S. Highway 189 (Wyoming)|U.S. Highway 189]]

===Adjacent counties===
*[[Lincoln County, Wyoming|Lincoln County]] - north
*[[Rich County, Utah]] - west
*[[Summit County, Utah]] - south and southwest
*[[Sweetwater County, Wyoming|Sweetwater County]] - east