10 Interesting Facts About Rock Springs

Facts About Rock Springs

Facts About Rock Springs

  1. Rock Springs was incorporated as a city in 1888 and is still the principal city in Sweetwater County.
  2. Rock Springs is the site of Western Wyoming Community College and Wyoming’s Big Show, a yearly event with a carnival and concerts which is held at the Sweetwater County Events Complex.
  3. Rock Springs derives its name from a rock spring which flowed in the Number 6 district in the northern part of town.
  4. Rock Springs is located at 41°35′6.38″N 109°13′17.01″W (41.585106, –109.221392).
  5. The city has a total area of 19.34 square miles, all land.
  6. The city of Rock Springs is approximately 6759 feet above sea level.
  7. Rock Springs was Named for a former spring that babbled through town, Rock Springs sprung from the growth and development of the area’s coal mining industry.
  8. Rock Springs, Wyoming is home to 56 nationalities, because of the influx of immigrants from all over the world who came to work in the coal mines that supplied the fuel to power the steam engines of the Union Pacific Railroad.
  9. The estimated population of Rock Springs is 23,319, as of 2019.
  10. Rock Springs is twinned with the following sister city Skofja Loka, Slovenia.
Facts About Rock Springs
Facts About Rock Springs