Wyoming
SW Wyoming
Sweetwater County

Rock Springs

Rock Springs is the biggest city in Sweetwater County in . It had a population of 23,000 in 2019. Rock Springs' nickname is: "Home of 56 Nationalities". The town has a rich western and coal mining history.
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  • Type: City with 22,100 residents
  • Description: city in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, United States
  • Also known as: “Rock Springs, WY” and “Rock Springs, Wyoming”
  • Postal codes: 82901 and 82902

Places of Interest

Highlights include Saints Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church and Rectory and Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church.

Church
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, also known as North Side Church, is a historic church in Rock Springs, Wyoming. The Roman Catholic church was established by Slavic immigrants who found the established Catholic church in Rock Springs to be dominated by Irish parishioners and clergy, and who wished to have a church more closely aligned to their traditions.

Church
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The of Rock Springs, Wyoming, on A at Broadway, was built in 1932. It was designed by Boston architects Maginnis and Walsh and its construction was run by supervising architect James Libby.

School
is a high school campus located in Rock Springs, , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Blairtown.

Neighborhood
is an unincorporated community in , , United States. It is located near Rock Springs. Town is named after the Blair Brothers who constructed a store and a bridge across the creek from Rock Spring in 1866.

Rock Springs

Latitude
41.5861° or 41° 35′ 10″ north
Longitude
-109.2195° or 109° 13′ 10″ west
Population
22,100
Elevation
6,388 feet (1,947 metres)
IATA airport code
RKS
United Nations Location Code
US RKS
Open location code
85HGHQPJ+C6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151642587
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5836898
Wiki­data ID
Q378071
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Rock Springs” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “روك سبرينغز”
  • Basque: “Rock Springs”
  • Bengali: “রক স্প্রিংস”
  • Breton: “Rock Springs”
  • Bulgarian: “Рок Спрингс”
  • Catalan: “Rock Springs”
  • Cebuano: “Rock Springs”
  • Chechen: “Рок-Спрингс”
  • Chinese: “Rock Springs”
  • Chinese: “石泉城”
  • Chinese: “罗克斯普林”
  • Cornish: “Rock Springs, Wyoming”
  • Cornish: “Rock Springs”
  • Czech: “Rock Springs”
  • Dagbani: “Rock Springs”
  • Danish: “Rock Springs”
  • Dutch: “Rock Springs”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “روك سبرينجز”
  • Faroese: “Rock Springs”
  • Finnish: “Rock Springs”
  • French: “Rock Springs”
  • German: “Rock Springs”
  • Gilaki: “راک اسپرینگز (وایؤمينگ)”
  • Gilaki: “راک اسپرینگز”
  • Greek: “Ροκ Σπρινγκς”
  • Gujarati: “રોક સ્પ્રિંગ્સ”
  • Haitian: “Rock Springs, Wyoming”
  • Haitian: “Rock Springs”
  • Hebrew: “רוק ספרינגס”
  • Hindi: “रॉक स्प्रिंग्स”
  • Hungarian: “Rock Springs”
  • Indonesian: “Rock Springs”
  • Irish: “Rock Springs, Wyoming”
  • Irish: “Rock Springs”
  • Italian: “Rock Springs”
  • Japanese: “ロック・スプリングス”
  • Japanese: “ロック・スプリングズ”
  • Japanese: “ロックスプリングス”
  • Japanese: “ロックスプリングズ”
  • Kannada: “ರಾಕ್ ಸ್ಪ್ರಿಂಗ್ಸ್”
  • Korean: “락 스프링스”
  • Korean: “록스프링스”
  • Ladin: “Rock Springs”
  • Latvian: “Rokspringsa”
  • Lithuanian: “Rok Springsas”
  • Malagasy: “Rock Springs, Wyoming”
  • Malagasy: “Rock Springs”
  • Malay: “Rock Springs”
  • Manx: “Rock Springs, Wyoming”
  • Manx: “Rock Springs”
  • Marathi: “रॉक स्प्रिंग्स”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Rock Springs”
  • Northern Frisian: “Rock Springs”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rock Springs”
  • Norwegian: “Rock Springs”
  • Persian: “راک اسپرینگز، وایومینگ”
  • Persian: “راک اسپرینگز”
  • Polish: “Rock Springs”
  • Portuguese: “Rock Springs”
  • Russian: “Рок-Спрингс”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Rock Springs, Wyoming”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Rock Springs”
  • Serbian: “Рок Спрингс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rock Springs, Wyoming”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rock Springs”
  • Sinhala: “රොක් ස්ප්‍රින්ග්ස්”
  • Slovak: “Rock Springs”
  • South Azerbaijani: “روک ایسپرینقز، ویومینق”
  • Spanish: “Rock Springs (Wyoming)”
  • Spanish: “Rock Springs”
  • Swedish: “Rock Springs, Wyoming”
  • Swedish: “Rock Springs”
  • Talysh: “Rok Springs”
  • Tamil: “ராக் ஸ்பிரிங்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Рок-Спрингс”
  • Telugu: “రాక్ స్ప్రింగ్స్”
  • Thai: “ร๊อกสปริงส์”
  • Turkish: “Rock Springs, Wyoming”
  • Turkish: “Rock Springs”
  • Ukrainian: “Рок-Спрінгс”
  • Ukrainian: “Рок-Спрінґс”
  • Urdu: “راک سپرنگز، وائیومنگ”
  • Urdu: “راک سپرنگز”
  • Uzbek: “Rock Springs”
  • Vietnamese: “Rock Springs, Wyoming”
  • Vietnamese: “Rock Springs”
  • Volapük: “Rock Springs”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rock Springs, Wyoming”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rock Springs”
  • Welsh: “Rock Springs, Wyoming”
  • Welsh: “Rock Springs”
  • Wu Chinese: “石泉城（怀俄明州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “石泉城”

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