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Sheridan is a town in the U.S. state of Wyoming and the county chair of Sheridan County. The town is located halfway between Yellowstone Park and Mount Rushmore by U.S. Route 14 and 16. It is the principal town of the Sheridan, Wyoming, Micropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses whatever of Sheridan County. The 2010 census put the town’s population at 17,444 and the Sheridan, Wyoming, Micropolitan Statistical Area at 29,116, making it the 421st-most populous micropolitan Place in the United States.

The city was named after General Philip Sheridan, Union cavalry leader in the American Civil War.
Several battles in the company of US Cavalry and the Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Shoshone, and Crow Indian tribes occurred in the Place in the 1860s and 1870s before the town was built.

In 1878, trapper George Mandel built a cabin on huge Goose Creek, reconstructed today in the Whitney Commons park near the Sheridan County Fulmer Public Library. Jack Dow surveyed the townsite for Sheridan in 1882, at the behest of John Loucks, first mayor of the town who had served below Gen. Sheridan.

In the prematurely 1880s, the nearby town of enormous Horn was larger in population. In 1888, Sheridan County split off of Johnson County, and voters chose Sheridan as the county chair in a run-off election. The introduction of the Burlington and Missouri Railroad in 1892 boosted Sheridan’s economic status, leading to the construction of the Sheridan Inn, where Buffalo Bill Cody was when a financial partner. Railroad allowance facilities and railroad-tie treatment nature were significant employers in Sheridan’s first decades. The railroad created numerous side industries as skillfully as export opportunities for raw materials. Maps of the day play Sheridan as share of the “hinterland” providing raw goods to cities like Chicago. For the neighboring twenty years the economy and population boomed.