Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Encampment, WY

Encampment, also known as Grand Encampment, is a town in southern Carbon County, Wyoming, along the Colorado-Wyoming border.

The town was incorporated on April 2, 1901.

The population of Encampment was 452 at the 2020 census, essentially unchanged from 450 in 2010.

The town covers 1.60 square miles of land at an elevation of 7,317 feet.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Encampment was a booming center of copper mining and smelting, served by a sixteen-mile tramway that carried copper ore from the mountains into town and was at the time the longest in the world.

A sharp drop in copper prices and disastrous fires drove the mining company into bankruptcy, and mining operations ceased in the early twentieth century.

A large sawmill operated in the town between 1950 and 1998.

The town sits between the Sierra Madre and Snowy Range mountains, and its economy is driven by timber, ranching, and recreation.

In the 2010 census, there were 227 households in the town, with an average household size of 1.98 and a median age of 51.6 years.

The Grand Encampment Museum highlights the area's copper mining, ranching, and logging history and includes over 15 historic buildings.