The Wyoming Room at the Sheridan County Fulmer Public Library
Your source for Sheridan Area history and genealogy
Monday - Thursday 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Friday and Saturday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Closed Sundays
- If you have a question you may telephone 307/674-8585 ext. 20 or fill out an on-line form
Western History Collection
Emphasis on state and regional history. Consult WYLDCAT for holdingsGenealogy Collection
Emphasis on U. S. genealogy. Consult WYLDCAT for holdingsLocal Resources
- Vital Records
- Records for Sheridan County cemeteries, including the Catholic Cemetery at Carneyville
- Funeral records for Champion Funeral Home, May 30, 1910 - August 1, 1997, and for Ferries Funeral Home, June 2, 1910 - August 24, 1997
- Index of obituaries from Sheridan newspapers, 1887 - current
- Index of marriages recorded in the Sheridan County Clerk's Office, August 3, 1888 - December 31, 1975
- Birth announcements from Sheridan newspapers, 1887 - 1978, 2002 - current
- Newspapers
- Big Horn Sentinel, September 13, 1884 - October 19, 1889
- Sheridan Post, January 4, 1889 - June 20, 1923
- Sheridan Enterprise, December 24, 1887 - June 1923
- Sheridan Post Enterprise, July 1, 1923 - November 9, 1930
- Sheridan Journal, September 3, 1925 - November 4, 1930
- Sheridan News, July 1, 1938 - December 31, 1938
- Sheridan Press, November 9, 1930 - current
- Country Journal, March 1975 - December 17, 1980
- Tongue River Courier, December 12, 1993 - March 31, 1995
- Tongue River News, April 6, 1994 - December 28, 1995
- The Ocksheperida (Sheridan High School), 1908 - current
- Land ownership
- Index to Sheridan County homesteaders with accompanying maps (homesteads granted by state of Wyoming not mapped)
- 1914 -- Map. "Sheridan County, Wyoming; showing extent of public surveys, military and forest reservations, railroads, ownership of taxable lands and other details"
- 1915 -- Map. "Sheridan County: state lands under filing, deeded lands, roads, railroads"
- 1938 -- Map. "Map of Sheridan County, Wyoming: county and state roads, rivers and streams, railroads, and land ownership," compiled by N. B. Bennett. Accompanied by a study done by DeAndrea Folster, Settling of Sheridan County, of the names of landowners found on map.