Teton County, Wyoming
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Teton County is a county located in the U.S. state
U.S. state
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 of Wyoming
Wyoming
Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the Western United States. The western two thirds of the state is covered mostly with the mountain ranges and rangelands in the foothills of the Eastern Rocky Mountains, while the eastern third of the state is high elevation prairie known as the High...

. As of 2010, the population was 21,294. Its county seat
County seat
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 is Jackson
Jackson, Wyoming
Jackson is a town located in the Jackson Hole valley of Teton County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 8,647 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Teton County....

. Teton County contains the affluent Jackson Hole
Jackson Hole
Jackson Hole, originally called Jackson's Hole, is a valley located in the U.S. state of Wyoming, near the western border with Idaho. The name "hole" derives from language used by early trappers or mountain men, who primarily entered the valley from the north and east and had to descend along...

 skiing area. In addition, the county contains all of Grand Teton National Park
Grand Teton National Park
Grand Teton National Park is a United States National Park located in northwestern Wyoming, U.S. The Park consists of approximately and includes the major peaks of the long Teton Range as well as most of the northern sections of the valley known as Jackson Hole. Only south of Yellowstone...

 and 40.4% of Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone National Park, established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872, is a national park located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming, although it also extends into Montana and Idaho...

's total area, including over 96.6% of its water area (largely in Yellowstone Lake
Yellowstone Lake
Yellowstone Lake is the largest body of water in Yellowstone National Park, The lake is 7,732 feet above sea level and covers with 110 miles of shoreline. While the average depth of the lake is 139 feet its deepest spot is at least 390 feet...

).

It has the highest personal per capita income
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 in the U.S. at $132,728, surpassing Manhattan
Manhattan
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 with $120,790.
Teton County is part of the Jackson, WY-ID
Idaho
Idaho is a state in the Rocky Mountain area of the United States. The state's largest city and capital is Boise. Residents are called "Idahoans". Idaho was admitted to the Union on July 3, 1890, as the 43rd state....

 Micropolitan Statistical Area
Jackson micropolitan area
The Jackson Micropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of two counties, one in Wyoming and one in Idaho, anchored by the town of Jackson....

.

History

Teton County was created February 15, 1921, with land detached from Lincoln County.

The county was named for the Teton Range
Teton Range
The Teton Range is a mountain range of the Rocky Mountains in North America. A north-south range, it is on the Wyoming side of the state's border with Idaho, just south of Yellowstone National Park. Most of the range is in Grand Teton National Park....

. The county was created because the inhabitants lived too far away from Kemmerer
Kemmerer, Wyoming
Kemmerer is both the largest city and the county seat of Lincoln County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 2,651 at the 2000 census. It dubs itself the "The Fossil Fish Capital of the World" and the "Gateway to the West." As the county seat of Lincoln County, Kemmerer is the location of...

, the county seat of Lincoln County. The creation of the county required a special act of the Wyoming Legislature
Wyoming Legislature
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, because the area was too poor and had too few people to qualify for county status under the normal requirements.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau
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, the county has a total area of 4222 square miles (10,934.9 km²), of which 4008 square miles (10,380.7 km²) is land and 214 square miles (554.3 km²) (5.07%) is water.

Adjacent counties

  • Park County - (north)
  • Fremont County - (east)
  • Sublette County - (southeast)
  • Lincoln County - (south)
  • Bonneville County
    Bonneville County, Idaho
    Bonneville County is a county located in the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2010 census, the county had a population of 104,234. Its county seat and largest city is Idaho Falls...

    , Idaho
    Idaho
    Idaho is a state in the Rocky Mountain area of the United States. The state's largest city and capital is Boise. Residents are called "Idahoans". Idaho was admitted to the Union on July 3, 1890, as the 43rd state....

     and Teton County
    Teton County, Idaho
    Teton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Idaho. Established in 1915, it was named after the Teton Mountains. As of the 2000 Census the county had a population of 5,999...

    , Idaho
    Idaho
    Idaho is a state in the Rocky Mountain area of the United States. The state's largest city and capital is Boise. Residents are called "Idahoans". Idaho was admitted to the Union on July 3, 1890, as the 43rd state....

     - (southwest)
  • Fremont County
    Fremont County, Idaho
    Fremont County is a county located in the U.S. state of Idaho. The county was established in 1893, and was named for the explorer John C. Frémont. As of the 2000 census the county had a population of 11,819 . The county seat and largest city is St. Anthony...

    , Idaho
    Idaho
    Idaho is a state in the Rocky Mountain area of the United States. The state's largest city and capital is Boise. Residents are called "Idahoans". Idaho was admitted to the Union on July 3, 1890, as the 43rd state....

     - (west)
  • Gallatin County
    Gallatin County, Montana
    -National protected areas:* Gallatin National Forest * Yellowstone National Park -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 67,831 people, 26,323 households, and 16,188 families residing in the county. The population density was 26 people per square mile . There were 29,489 housing units...

    , Montana
    Montana
    Montana is a state in the Western United States. The western third of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges. Smaller, "island ranges" are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains. This geographical fact is reflected in the state's name,...

     - (northwest)


Teton County, Wyoming is one of the few counties in the United States to border its namesake in another state—in this case, Teton County
Teton County, Idaho
Teton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Idaho. Established in 1915, it was named after the Teton Mountains. As of the 2000 Census the county had a population of 5,999...

, Idaho
Idaho
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.

National protected areas

  • Bridger-Teton National Forest
    Bridger-Teton National Forest
    Bridger-Teton National Forest is located in western Wyoming, United States. The forest consists of , making it the second largest National Forest outside of Alaska. The forest stretches from Yellowstone National Park, along the eastern boundary of Grand Teton National Park and from there rides...

     (part)
  • Caribou-Targhee National Forest
    Caribou-Targhee National Forest
    Caribou-Targhee National Forest is located in the states of Idaho and Wyoming, with a small section in Utah in the United States. The forest is broken into several separate sections and extends over . To the east the forest borders Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park and...

     (part)
  • Grand Teton National Park
    Grand Teton National Park
    Grand Teton National Park is a United States National Park located in northwestern Wyoming, U.S. The Park consists of approximately and includes the major peaks of the long Teton Range as well as most of the northern sections of the valley known as Jackson Hole. Only south of Yellowstone...

  • John D. Rockefeller Memorial Parkway
  • National Elk Refuge
    National Elk Refuge
    The National Elk Refuge is located in the U.S. state of Wyoming and was created in 1912 to protect habitat and provide sanctuary for the largest elk herd on Earth. The refuge borders the town of Jackson, Wyoming on the northeast while Bridger-Teton National Forest is to the east and Grand Teton...

  • Shoshone National Forest
    Shoshone National Forest
    Shoshone National Forest is the first federally protected National Forest in the United States and covers nearly 2.5 million acres in the state of Wyoming. Originally a part of the Yellowstone Timberland Reserve, the forest was created by an act of Congress and signed into law by U.S....

     (part)
  • Yellowstone National Park
    Yellowstone National Park
    Yellowstone National Park, established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872, is a national park located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming, although it also extends into Montana and Idaho...

     (part)

Demographics

As of the census
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of 2000, there were 18,251 people, 7,688 households, and 4,174 families residing in the county. The population density
Population density
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 was 5 people per square mile (2/km²). There were 10,267 housing units at an average density of 3 per square mile (1/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 93.59% White
Race (United States Census)
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, 0.15% Black
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 or African American
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, 0.53% Native American
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, 0.54% Asian
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, 0.03% Pacific Islander
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, 3.93% from other races
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, and 1.22% from two or more races. 6.49% of the population were Hispanic
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 or Latino
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 of any race. 19.2% were of German, 14.2% English
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, 11.7% Irish
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 and 6.7% American
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 ancestry according to Census 2000.

There were 7,688 households out of which 25.60% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.30% were married couples
Marriage
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 living together, 5.70% had a female householder with no husband present, and 45.70% were non-families. 27.30% of all households were made up of individuals and 3.70% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.36 and the average family size was 2.89.

Age range in the county was well distributed with 19.90% under the age of 18, 9.80% from 18 to 24, 38.30% from 25 to 44, 25.00% from 45 to 64, and 6.90% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 114.30 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 115.50 males.

The median income for a household in the county was $54,614, and the median income for a family was $63,916. Males had a median income of $34,570 versus $29,132 for females. The per capita income
Per capita income
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 for the county was $38,260. About 2.80% of families and 6.00% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.70% of those under age 18 and 4.40% of those age 65 or over.

Politics

Presidential election results
Year GOP
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DEM
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Others
2008
United States presidential election, 2008
The United States presidential election of 2008 was the 56th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on November 4, 2008. Democrat Barack Obama, then the junior United States Senator from Illinois, defeated Republican John McCain, the senior U.S. Senator from Arizona. Obama received 365...

37.1% 4,565 60.7% 7,472 2.3% 279
2004
United States presidential election, 2004
The United States presidential election of 2004 was the United States' 55th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 2004. Republican Party candidate and incumbent President George W. Bush defeated Democratic Party candidate John Kerry, the then-junior U.S. Senator...

45.1% 5,124 52.6% 5,972 2.3% 263
2000
United States presidential election, 2000
The United States presidential election of 2000 was a contest between Republican candidate George W. Bush, then-governor of Texas and son of former president George H. W. Bush , and Democratic candidate Al Gore, then-Vice President....

52.3% 5,454 38.5% 4,019 9.2% 958
1996
United States presidential election, 1996
The United States presidential election of 1996 was a contest between the Democratic national ticket of President Bill Clinton of Arkansas and Vice President Al Gore of Tennessee and the Republican national ticket of former Senator Bob Dole of Kansas for President and former Housing Secretary Jack...

43.5% 3,918 44.9% 4,042 11.5% 1,038
1992
United States presidential election, 1992
The United States presidential election of 1992 had three major candidates: Incumbent Republican President George Bush; Democratic Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, and independent Texas businessman Ross Perot....

34.2% 2,854 37.4% 3,120 28.4% 2,373
1988
United States presidential election, 1988
The United States presidential election of 1988 featured no incumbent president, as President Ronald Reagan was unable to seek re-election after serving the maximum two terms allowed by the Twenty-second Amendment. Reagan's Vice President, George H. W. Bush, won the Republican nomination, while the...

61.0% 3,616 37.4% 2,217 1.6% 93
1984
United States presidential election, 1984
The United States presidential election of 1984 was a contest between the incumbent President Ronald Reagan, the Republican candidate, and former Vice President Walter Mondale, the Democratic candidate. Reagan was helped by a strong economic recovery from the deep recession of 1981–1982...

67.9% 3,487 30.5% 1,565 1.7% 87
1980
United States presidential election, 1980
The United States presidential election of 1980 featured a contest between incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter and his Republican opponent, Ronald Reagan, as well as Republican Congressman John B. Anderson, who ran as an independent...

57.6% 3,004 26.1% 1,361 16.2% 847
1976
United States presidential election, 1976
The United States presidential election of 1976 followed the resignation of President Richard Nixon in the wake of the Watergate scandal. It pitted incumbent President Gerald Ford, the Republican candidate, against the relatively unknown former governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter, the Democratic...

67.4% 2,667 30.4% 1,204 2.2% 86
1972
United States presidential election, 1972
The United States presidential election of 1972 was the 47th quadrennial United States presidential election. It was held on November 7, 1972. The Democratic Party's nomination was eventually won by Senator George McGovern, who ran an anti-war campaign against incumbent Republican President Richard...

70.0% 2,182 26.0% 810 4.0% 124
1968
United States presidential election, 1968
The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th quadrennial United States presidential election. Coming four years after Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson won in a historic landslide, it saw Johnson forced out of the race and Republican Richard Nixon elected...

69.3% 1,419 22.5% 461 8.2% 169
1964
United States presidential election, 1964
The United States presidential election of 1964 was held on November 3, 1964. Incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson had come to office less than a year earlier following the assassination of his predecessor, John F. Kennedy. Johnson, who had successfully associated himself with Kennedy's...

52.8% 1,081 47.2% 968 0.0% 0
1960
United States presidential election, 1960
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66.5% 1,158 33.5% 583 0.0% 0


Previously a staunchly Republican county, Teton is the one reliably Democratic county in Wyoming, which is the third most Republican state in the nation. The only Republican presidential candidate since 1992
United States presidential election, 1992
The United States presidential election of 1992 had three major candidates: Incumbent Republican President George Bush; Democratic Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, and independent Texas businessman Ross Perot....

 to win Teton County was George W. Bush
George W. Bush
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 in 2000
United States presidential election, 2000
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. In the 2008 election
United States presidential election, 2008
The United States presidential election of 2008 was the 56th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on November 4, 2008. Democrat Barack Obama, then the junior United States Senator from Illinois, defeated Republican John McCain, the senior U.S. Senator from Arizona. Obama received 365...

, Barack Obama
Barack Obama
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 carried Teton County by a 23.6% margin over John McCain
John McCain
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, with McCain winning statewide by a 32.2% margin over Obama, the Republican's widest margin in any state. Albany County was the only other county in the state to back Obama. In 2004
United States presidential election, 2004
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, Teton was the only county in Wyoming to be won by John Kerry
John Kerry
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 over George W. Bush
George W. Bush
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.

Populated places

Census-designated places

  • Alta
    Alta, Wyoming
    Alta is a census-designated place in Teton County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 400 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Jackson, WY–ID Micropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...

  • Hoback
    Hoback, Wyoming
    Hoback is a census-designated place in Teton County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 1,453 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Jackson, WY–ID Micropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Hoback is located at ....

  • Moose Wilson Road
    Moose Wilson Road, Wyoming
    Moose Wilson Road is a census-designated place in Teton County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 1,439 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Jackson, WY–ID Micropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...

  • Rafter J Ranch
    Rafter J Ranch, Wyoming
    Rafter J Ranch is a census-designated place in Teton County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 1,138 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Jackson, WY–ID Micropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...

  • South Park
    South Park, Wyoming
    South Park is a census-designated place in Teton County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 864 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Jackson, WY–ID Micropolitan Statistical Area...

  • Teton Village
    Teton Village, Wyoming
    Teton Village is a census-designated place in Teton County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 175 at the 2000 census. The village surrounds the base of the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort...

  • Wilson
    Wilson, Wyoming
    Wilson is a census-designated place in Teton County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 1,294 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Jackson, WY–ID Micropolitan Statistical Area...


Other places

  • Kelly
    Kelly, Wyoming
    Kelly is an unincorporated community in Teton County in the U.S. state of Wyoming. Kelly is .situated along the Gros Ventre River on the eastern side of the Jackson Hole valley, is part of the Jackson, WY–ID Micropolitan Statistical Area and has a US Post Office with zip code 83011.The settlement...

  • Moran
    Moran, Wyoming
    Moran is an unincorporated community in south central Teton County, Wyoming, United States, which serves as one of the principal fee collection entrances to Grand Teton National Park. It lies in Grand Teton National Park northeast of the city of Jackson, the county seat of Teton County, at the...

  • Colter Bay
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