Where we work in Laramie County

One county, three different jobs

Laramie County is the most populous county in Wyoming, with around 102,900 people, and roughly two thirds of them live in Cheyenne. The rest are spread across three small towns and a lot of open country. We cover all of it, but it would be dishonest to pretend the work is the same everywhere.

Inside Cheyenne, the variable is the age of the house. A home in the Rainsford or Lakeview districts was built between about 1880 and the 1930s, with galvanized supply lines, a stone foundation and lath-and-plaster walls. A home on the north side was built in the last thirty years, with PEX, a poured foundation and a finished basement full of material that water destroys. Both flood. They fail for different reasons, they dry at different speeds, and the decision about what gets cut out is completely different.

Outside the city, the variable is infrastructure. Town addresses are on municipal water and sewer. Country addresses are on a private well, a septic system and propane. On a well there is no single main valve that ends the supply, because the pump keeps running until somebody cuts the breaker. A backup through a floor drain is a septic problem with no utility to call. Running out of propane in January freezes pipes. None of that applies in town.

And distance is real. Pine Bluffs is forty miles east, Albin thirty-seven miles northeast. On a winter night with drifting on the county roads, nobody gets to you quickly, which makes what you do in the first five minutes matter more out there than anywhere else we cover.

That is why each area has its own page rather than one list of place names. Pick the one that matches your address.