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Headline: Cowboy State Daily, 6/7/2025
There are no native Wamsutterites serving on the town council. There is only one locally raised teacher at the K-8 Desert School.
Ask any of the town's staple employees — from the service stations to the trickle of rig workers who sometimes shoot pool at the otherwise vacant Desert Bar — and they’ll all tell you the same thing.
“No one in Wamsutter is actually from Wamsutter,” said a woman who goes by Sabre, who in May relocated here from Rock Springs for the third time in as many years for a job at Love’s Travel Stop, the town’s largest employer.
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Among the area’s primary economic drivers are the oil fields just outside Wamsutter, most of which are under the operation of the energy company Crowheart. As with energy towns everywhere, the population here rises and falls like a sine wave. [emphasis added]
Although over the long term, the crests and troughs of its population have both trended downward.
Its high-water mark came in 1980 when the town had 681 permanent residents, according to the U.S. Census. It fell to 261 in 2000 and bounced back up to 461 in 2010. At the most recent 2020 census, it dropped to 203, and estimates put its population today at 193.
Wamsutter as seen from I-80
Trucker leaving Wamsutter (screengrab from YouTube)
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