SECTION 4 SOUTHWEST AREA INCLUDING EVANSTON, KEMMERER, GREEN RIVER AND ROCK SPRINGS Wyoming, over half of the workforce in Rock Springs is employed by industry, principally min- ing, petroleum, power generation and related services. The coal mining industry continues to produce over ten million tons of coal annually, and the trona mines and plants are one of America’s most important natural resources, pro- ducing approximately fifteen million tons of trona per year. The five plants in the area produce 95% of the world’s natural soda ash. Sweetwater County’s trona deposit is large enough to produce at the same rate for the next 6000 years. The nearby Jim Bridger Power Plant is the largest electric generating plant in Wyoming. Located thirty-two miles east of Rock Springs, it has a generating capacity of 2000 megawatts. The plant is a coal-fired steam turbine. The county is also the largest producer of natural gas in the state. Some eleven billion cubic feet of gas can be produced annually. Much of the history of Rock Springs is based on its multi-ethnic influence. Rock Springs was once known as the “Melting Pot” of the West, with over 57 nationalities having lived here. Most came to work in the coalmines, and later in the oil and Section 4 The Black’s Fork River south of Green River gas fields. Although this was once an uneasy mix- ture (as with the Chinese Massacre of 1885), the town now embraces its cultural diversity. the underground flow but a monument now Information courtesy of 1 No services commemorates the location. Rock Springs Chamber of Commerce I-80 Exit 111 In the mid 1850s, US Army Captain Howard Stansbury and his party stopped at Rock T Camp Pilot Butte Springs and made detailed reports of the large 633 Brider in Rock Springs 2 Food, Lodging coal outcroppings. Days later, at Salt Wells to Workers were encouraged by mining companies the east of Rock Springs, the Captain’s party to migrate to Rock Springs. At one time, more learned from trappers that the Blair Brothers than 56 different nationalities were represented, were working on the coal outcroppings in the resulting in Rock Springs being named the “melt- site now known as Blairtown. ing pot of Wyoming”. The need for more workers During August, 1868, the Union Pacific brought Chinese contract laborers to work in the Railroad was completed to Rock Springs, and mines in 1875. This precipitated the Chinese from that time on Rock Springs was the Central Massacre of 1885 when white miners chased the Terminal for the Stock herds being shipped to Chinese out of town and burned Chinatown. market on that side of the state. By 1875, the K Soldiers were sent to establish Camp Pilot Butte EMMERER railroad was hauling supplies for the army, set- S in the center of Rock Springs and were stationed OUTHWEST tlers had arrived, and the coalmines were there until 1898 when the Spanish American War working constantly. broke out. The officers’ quarters and buildings Robert Parker (“Butch” Cassidy) spent some have been destroyed but the enlisted men’s bar- , G of his youth in Rock Springs, working in some racks now serve as a Catholic School. REEN butcher shops. It is believed that is how he got A his nickname. T Weidner Wildlife Exhibit REA Rock Springs still has the largest coal Western Wyoming Community College. R I 382-1600 IVER AND Rock Springs reserves west of the Mississippi River. Rock NCLUDING Pop. 18,708, Elev. 6,271 Springs is also the center of the rapidly growing Situated on the Western Wyoming Community As you approach Rock Springs, you can almost oil and gas production industry, power plant College Campus, this new museum showcases a imagine travelers bouncing along the Overland development, and the center of mineral resource collection of more than 100 wildlife mounts from Stage route toward the stage station that was the development program that is marked by the around the world. Exhibits include an elephant, R E beginning of this southwestern Wyoming town. continual expansion of the trona industry. hipopotamus, zebra, lion, alligator, several bears, OCK VANSTON Rock Springs derives its name from a large spring Sweetwater County has been designated as the and the elusive jackalope. Open Monday and that flowed from the rocks. The springs disap- “Trona Capitol of the World”. Wednesday, 10 a.m. to-1 p.m. and Thursdays S peared when the coalmine operations interrupted As the most industrialized county in 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free. PRINGS , Rock Springs Jan Feb March April May June July Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual Average Max. Temperature (F) 31.7 36.9 43.7 55.3 66.5 77.1 86.4 83.7 73.5 61.0 44.0 34.2 57.8 Average Min. Temperature (F) 10.6 15.2 20.7 28.8 37.5 45.3 51.8 49.5 40.0 30.6 20.7 13.4 30.3 Average Total Precipitation (in.) 0.44 0.42 0.59 0.96 1.29 1.07 0.56 0.66 0.76 0.74 0.53 0.48 8.51 Average Total SnowFall (in.) 8.0 6.6 7.1 6.2 1.9 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.6 3.8 6.7 8.2 49.2 Average Snow Depth (in.) 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 www.ultimatewyoming.com 205 Section 1 Utah SECTION 4 Section 4 All Wyoming Area Codes are 307 Utah 0 Miles 14 25 One inch = approximately 14 miles 206 Ultimate Wyoming Atlas and Travel Encyclopedia 30 N Side Belt Dr 80 Legend Swanson Dr Mabel Ave Van Dyke A Locator number (matches ve 00 11th St Perry St 30 Dr numeric listing in section) 10th St Dora Ave 9th St El R Reliance Dr Paulson St ncho Dr io Camino a Joan Ave Powell St Dr El Railroad Ave. Clark St El R Campsite (number matches ne St Lowell Ave f SoulsbyMil St Ridge RugbyAve St 00 number in campsite chart) Lyle Blvd Mitchelson St N St Arapahoe St illie St B 2 Creek Ave k Fishing Site (number matches O St ilot Butte Ave Pearl St 00 P N S number in fishing chart) t 8th St 30 M St James Dr Channel St7th St Elias Ave 6th St Liberty Dr St Virginia Rest stop Front St Opal St Delgas St Elm Dr L St Yalecrest Dr Noble Dr Juniper Dr Euclid Ave Coral St Edgar St Agate St Liberty St Interstate St Lee St Hill St 5th St Angle St Elk St 2nd Way Westview Ave Gale St Collins St N Center St G St de St H St Lewis St S Main St Hay St Ashley St Fremont St Pioneer Dr Aspen U.S. Highway GarnetParkview St Ave Ja McCabe St Agate St Carson St 30 'Donnell St StF St O th St Gobel 7 Thorpe St 24 Paved State or County Road Wendt St 30 Broadway St E St e I St R St P St Q St St St rk Av t 3rd Pa C St Hickor 2nd St B S Blair Ave Fremont Gravel/unpaved road 1st St A Emerald S t de Belt y St Si St Wardell Ct S Cedar St T Sweetwater Community New Hampshir Fine Arts Center PineWalnut St St OCK PRINGS W Blair Ave e St R S Read St Vermont St 400 C St in Rock Springs. 362-6212 Alder St Wyoming St This collection by local artists originated in 1939 Massachusetts Ave BUSINESS Maple St Ash St Hickory St Willow St Washington Ave Lincoln Ave and now numbers over 300 works of art, Jefferson Ave Thompson St Section 4 Bushnell Ave Young Ave DISTRICT acclaimed the best owned by an American High Marchant St School. The collection was featured in Time New Hampshire St Fancher St Magazine in 1952. The permanent collection McKinley Walnut St Walnut Adams A Lincoln A includes original paintings by such notables as Map not to scale Norman Rockwell, Grandma Moses, Rafino A v Tamayo, and Rafael Soyer, to name a few. The v facility has areas for traveling exhibits, sculptures and is used as a community events center. Open Yellowstone Rd Monday through Thursday and on alternating Elk St Fridays and Saturdays. K St Lionkol Rd ROCK SPRINGS 3 Food, Lodging AREA I-80 Exit 103 4 Elk St T Western Wyoming K 104 Community College Art Gallery 3 EMMERER 2500 College Dr in Rock Springs. 382-1600 S 30 OUTHWEST This gallery features regional and national artists 80 representing a great variety of mediums. It fea- Community Creek Rd tures a semiannual art student exhibit and several , G 4 ceramic exhibitions. Open Monday through 9th St 103 2 107 REEN Friday and admission is free. A 30 REA James Dr 80 T Western Wyoming R Madison Dr Edgar St I IVER AND Community College NCLUDING Sweetwater C St McCabe St Center G S Natural History Museum Dr College A St 5 t t 7 l and Archeological Services Cascade Dr Pinon St S Side Be Foothill Blvd At Western Wyoming Community College. Clearview Dr White Mountain Rd Alder St 382-1666 R Thompson St 102 6 E 80 OCK Dewar Dr VANSTON The Museum of Natural History offers artifacts 30 reflecting the archeology, geology, and natural his- S tory of the region. Several Wyoming dinosaur St Walnut 80 PRINGS McKinley Ave skeletons and fossils are displayed for public 30 Map not to scale viewing throughout the campus facility.