Cheyenne is located in the southeastern corner of Wyoming at an elevation of 6,100 feet.   The surrounding terrain includes rolling rangelands and mountains.   The population of Cheyenne is presently just over 55,000 in the city, and just over 80,400 in the county.   The median age of Laramie County residents is slightly below the national average.   Nearly 80% of adults, ages 25 and over, are high school graduates.

The majority of housing in the area consists of single-family detached homes with exceptionally reasonable prices.

The city of Cheyenne had its beginning 1867, when the Union Pacific Railroad crossed the high plains on its way to the West Coast.   The town-site was first surveyed by General Granville Dodge and was named for an Indian tribe, which roamed the area.

On December 10, 1868, the city of Cheyenne was officially declared the seat of the government for the territory of Wyoming.   By this time Cheyenne hosted a conglomeration of people including railroad gangs, soldiers from Fort Russell, which today is known as F.E. Warren Air Force Base, and employees from Camp Carlin, a supply camp for all the northern posts on the Indian frontier.   By 1875, the population had swelled to about five thousand.

In the early 1880's, cattle raising made Cheyenne the wealthiest per capita city in the world.   It was during this time that the world-famous Cheyenne Club was organized.   Its membership consisted of rich men from the East and England, cattle barons who would spend their summers in Cheyenne and their winters in Europe.   Their legacy is still evident in the many beautiful historic mansions in the downtown district.

Today Cheyenne is the crossroads of the Old West and the New West, a community where the romance of Western tradition not only survives, but also thrives, alongside the most modern of businesses competing in a new global economy.

Cheyenne is still the solid northern anchor of a bustling Northern Front Range economy and the capital of a state that is the nation's leading energy supplier.   Today's Cheyenne is a modern city that utilizes the world's new technology at a friendlier, less frantic pace.