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Gillette is an incorporated city and the county seat of Campbell County, Wyoming, founded in 1891 as a railway town on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and incorporated on January 6, 1892.

The 2020 census counted 33,403 residents in Gillette, making it Wyoming's third-largest city after Cheyenne and Casper.

The 2020 census also counted 12,751 households and 14,089 housing units in the city.

The city was named for Edward Gillette, a surveyor for the railroad company, and before that the settlement was known as Donkey Town, after Donkey Creek, and then as Rocky Pile.

Gillette sits in the Powder River Basin between the Bighorn Mountains to the west and the Black Hills to the east, in an area devoted to the development of coal, oil, and coalbed methane gas.

The city calls itself the "Energy Capital of the Nation" because Wyoming provides nearly 35 percent of the nation's coal, and its official motto is "Energy Capital of the World".

In November 1895 a fire destroyed most of the town, leaving only two saloons, two stores, and a restaurant standing.

Psychologist ElDean Kohrs coined the term "Gillette syndrome" in 1974 for the social disruption rapid population growth can cause, using Gillette, which doubled from 3,580 to 7,194 residents during the 1960s, as his basic example.

Gillette annexed the Antelope Valley-Crestview census-designated place on January 1, 2018.

Public education in Gillette is provided by Campbell County School District Number 1, home to Campbell County High School and Thunder Basin High School, and Gillette College, a two-year college in the Northern Wyoming Community College District, is also in the city.