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Washakie County was named in honor of Chief Washakie of the Shonshi tribe in Wyoming.
It was created February9,1911. Worland is the county seat
Adjacent counties
* Big Horn County (north)
 * Johnson County (east)
* Natrona County (southeast)
* Fremont County (south)
* Hot Springs County (west)
* Park County (northwest)
City
* Worland
Town
* Ten Sleep
Census-designated places
* Airport Road
* Mc Nutt
* South Flat
* Washakie Ten
* West River
* Winchester
City of Worland – the 5000+ people who call Worland home, this small city is big on life. Its roots are deep in agriculture, energy and industry, built to accommodate the workers and growers along the canal system and the soon after discovered oil fields, Worland continues to have the largest per capita diversity in industry in the State of Wyoming.
Worland Wyoming Indian Brave #36 on the Trail of the Whispering Giants – Located on the corner of 10th street and Big Horn Avenue in Worland ,the thirty sixth wood carving in Peter Toth’s “Trail of the Whispering Giants” “... to honor the first Americans – the Shoshone, Arapaho, Sioux – all the Indians that did and still do live in this state.”  Carved in 1980 and given to the State of Wyoming, County of Washakie and the City of Worland, it is one of 67 in the United States and Canada.
Original town site of Worland - Located on the west side of the river near where 15 mile creek enters the Big Horn River “Camp Worland” consisted of “Dad” Worland’s Saloon, 2 hotels, Dance Hall, a tent school house, 3 retail stores, (see below left).4 residences, a Chinese Laundry and the Hanover Canal Company Office. Worland slid across the ice in the middle of the winter 1905 – 1906, to be on the right side of the river when the rail road got there the summer of ‘06’
Big Cedar Ridge Plant Fossil Area holds plant fossils that are 72 million years old. Big Cedar Ridge is located on public lands about halfway between Worland and Ten Sleep, Wyoming. When these plants were growing the dinosaur reign was coming to a close. The plant fossils are keys that may unlock the mysteries of what the environment was like so long ago. A complete late Cretaceous-age plant community was buried in place by volcanic ash. Through erosion and continued research,
Big Cedar Ridge slowly unveils its treasure of fossilized plants. For nearly three miles, the exposed fossils show the relationship between ancient plants and their landscape. You can help scientists by reporting your fossil finds to the BLM. Plant fossils (animals without a backbone) can be collected in small amounts with hand tools.
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